39-year-old woman with history of abdominal pain and diarrhea, evaluate for chronic pancreatitis. ABDOMEN:LIVER, BILIARY TRACT: The liver is normal in signal and morphology.The gallbladder is normal. There is no intra or extrahepatic biliary ductal dilatation.The portal vein is patent.SPLEEN: No significant abnormality noted.PANCREAS: There is agenesis of the dorsal pancreas with normal appearance of the ventral pancreas parenchyma. Mild, generalized diffusion restriction within the remaining pancreatic parenchyma is noted without secondary signs of inflammation or loss of normal parenchymal lobulations.The pancreatic duct is not well visualized on MRCP images, however on the venous postcontrast images (series 1205) the pancreatic duct is seen and nondilated. Exocrine function appears normal on post-secretin images (1901).ADRENAL GLANDS: No significant abnormality noted.KIDNEYS, URETERS: No significant abnormality noted.RETROPERITONEUM, LYMPH NODES: No significant abnormality noted.BOWEL, MESENTERY: The partially visualized small bowel and colon appear normal.BONES, SOFT TISSUES: No significant abnormality noted.OTHER: Trace bilateral pleural effusions.
1.Dorsal pancreatic agenesis with normal post-secretin exocrine response.2.Pancreatic duct not well visualized, but without gross abnormality and nondilated on the venous phase images.