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Vater's tubercle
Also known as:
Papilla duodeni Santorini
Santorini's caruncula
Santorini's major caruncula
Associated persons:
Giovanni Domenico Santorini
Abraham Vater
Description:
A small elevation at the site of the opening of the conjoined common bile duct and pancreatic duct into the lumen of the duodenum.
Bibliography:
- A. Vater:
Dissertatio anatomica quo novum bilis diceticulum circa orificum ductus choledochi ut et valvulosam colli vesicae felleae constructionem ad disceptandum proponit.
Wittenbergae, lit. Gerdesianus, 1720.
- G. D. Santorini:
Observationes anatomicae. Venetiis, apud J. B. Recurti, 1724; Leiden, 1939.
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