Oddi's sphincter

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RESULTS: The basal pressure of Oddi's sphincter is usually 5 to 15 mm Hg greater than the bile and pancreatic duct pressures.
CONCLUSION: The function of Oddi's sphincter is changed but not destroyed following ES.
Manometry of Oddi's sphincter is the gold standard for its diagnosis.
As far as Oddi's sphincter is concerned, there can be distinguished two types of disfunctions: stenotic and dyskinetic.
Motility of Oddi's sphincter: recent developments and clinical applications.
Effects of narcotic analgesic drugs on human Oddi's sphincter motility.
That is the reason why some authors consider the pregnancy to be the factor which stimulates acute pancreatitis, calculous cholecystitis and disfunction of Oddi's sphincter (4-7).
Oddi's sphincter motor activity in patients with recurrent pyogenic cholangitis.
Also at the same site one can find the following: "Oddi's sphincter (muscle) (Oddi's sphincter (muscle)) (od[emacr]z) [Ruggero Oddi, Italian physician, 18641913] see under sphincter.

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