The main purpose of this investigation was to determine whether a difference between the pancreatic duct system in male and female may explain the higher incidence of pancreatitis in the female and, on the contrary, the higher frequency of pancreatic tumours in the male. Paxten and Payne ('48); Morse and Achs (149) and Edlund ('50) have statistically shown that pancreatitis is seen two to three times more often in the female than in the male, while carcinoma of the pancreas is twice as common in males as in females, (Willis, ‘48; Anderson, ‘51). Furthermore, this study will provide a precise account of the basic anatomy of the pancreatic duct pattern. The pancreatic duct system of twenty foetuses, twenty infants and one hundred and forty four adults, was therefore examined by eosin injection, radiological and dissection techniques.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115082 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Dawson, William. I. |
| Contributors | Langman, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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