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The human embryo begins life with two ducts in the pancreas, the ventral duct and the dorsal duct. Normally, the two ducts will fuse together to form one main pancreatic duct; this occurs in more than 90% of embryos. In approximately 10% of embryos the ventral and dorsal ducts fail to fuse together, resulting in pancreas divisum. In utero, the majority of the pancreas is drained by the dorsal duct which opens up into the minor papilla. The ventral duct drains the minority of the pancreas and opens into the major papilla. In adults however, this situation is reversed whereby 70% of the pancreas is drained by the ventral duct. Therefore in pancreas divisum, where fusion of the ducts does not occur, the major drainage of the pancreas is done by the dorsal duct which opens up into the minor papilla.
The end of the "tail of the pancreas" developed a pseudocyst, or hemorrhagic pancreatitis. The hemorrage started to bleed within itself. Because Sean was on the thinner side and he maintained a healthy diet. The surgeons believe that is the only reason Sean didn't pass away. He was in grave danger. We knew that emergency surgery was going to be needed. That very long week took forever.
