Vol. 123 No. 3 (2018)
Original Article

Historical considerations regarding the first descriptions of pancreas’ anatomy

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  • George Paraskevas,
  • Konstantinos Koutsouflianiotis,
  • Nikolaos Lazaridis,
  • Kalliopi Iliou,
  • Theodosios Bitsis,
  • George Noussios,
  • Nikolaos Syrmos
George Paraskevas
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Konstantinos Koutsouflianiotis
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolaos Lazaridis
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Kalliopi Iliou
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Theodosios Bitsis
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
George Noussios
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolaos Syrmos
Department of Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Published 2019-05-27

Keywords

  • Pancreas,
  • anatomy

How to Cite

Paraskevas, G., Koutsouflianiotis, K., Lazaridis, N., Iliou, K., Bitsis, T., Noussios, G., & Syrmos, N. (2019). Historical considerations regarding the first descriptions of pancreas’ anatomy. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, 123(3), 257–262. Retrieved from https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ijae/article/view/1653
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Abstract

The descriptions of the term “pancreas” as well the macroscopic anatomy of the pancreas throughout Antiquity, Byzantium, Middle Ages and Renaissance are displayed. In particular, the original phrases of famous physicians of that period as regards the anatomy of the pancreas are presented: Hippocrates, Aristotle, Herophilus, Galen, Rufus of Efesus, Julius Pollux, Oribasius, Bartolomeo Eustachio, Andreas Vesalius, Gabriel Fallopius, Johann Georg Wirsung, Francis Glisson, Giovanni Domenico Santorini.

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