Pancreas divisum: a cause of pancreatitis in childhood.

The anatomic congenital anomaly pancreas divisum has recently been implicated as a cause of acute pancreatitis. The associated stenosis of the minor papilla has been postulated to cause pancreatitis by producing a relative obstruction to the high volumes of dorsal pancreatic secretion. We present a 10-year-old boy with acute pancreatitis associated with pancreas divisum to illustrate this as a cause of pancreatitis in childhood.