We describe an infant with pancreas divisum diagnosed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. This infant had chronic and unremitting pancreatitis that only became amenable to surgery following the use of somatostatin analog after the usual and customary treatment for pancreatitis was ineffective.

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