The main pancreatic duct needs to be 6mm in diameter in the body of the pancreas for this procedure to be possible.

"Toldt's fascia": Continuation of Treitz's fascia behind the body of the pancreas.

The fourth (ascending) part passes superiorly, either anterior to, or to the right of, the aorta, until it reaches the inferior border of the body of the pancreas.

Unlike the splenic artery, the splenic vein is intraperitoneal as it courses along the superior border of the body of the pancreas, whereas the splenic artery is retroperitoneal.

The left is somewhat higher than the right; it lies behind the left renal vein, the body of the pancreas and the splenic vein, and is crossed by the inferior mesenteric vein.

Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography showed irregular dilatation of the main pancreatic duct in the tail and opacification of three pseudocysts, one in the head and two in the body of the pancreas.

A computed tomography examination showed a pseudocyst, 3 cm in diameter, in the pancreatic head and several pseudocysts located behind the body of the pancreas; a dilatation of the main pancreatic duct was seen in the tail.

Most gastrinomas are found in the gastrinoma triangle; this is bound by the junction of cystic and common bile ducts, junction of the second and third parts of the duodenum, and the junction of the neck and body of the pancreas.

Gastrointestinal malignancies account for about half of underlying sources (most commonly gastric cancer, colonic cancer or pancreatic cancer, mostly of the tail and body of the pancreas), and men are even more likely to have an underlying cancer of the gastrointestinal tract.