Posttraumatic biliary pseudocyst of the liver in a child
Neubertová, K.; Axmann, K.; Beranová, Z.; Chromcák, V.
Rozhledy V Chirurgii Mesicnik Ceskoslovenske Chirurgicke Spolecnosti 69(8): 556-560
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-9351 PMID: 2251589 Document Number: 364636
The authors describe a rare complication of a severe liver injury--the development of a post-traumatic biliary pseudocyst--in a 5-year-old child with a multiple injury. The pseudocyst was detected by ultrasound and computed tomography when searching for the cause of the persisting septic condition following prolonged resuscitation during the postoperative period. Percutaneous puncture drainage by means of a pigtail made under sonographic control, although because of limited experience it was repeated, led to recovery of the child. Thus it proved possible to resolve a post-traumatic infected biliary hepatic pseudocyst without a major invasion into the child's organism which was severely affected by the multiple injury as well as septic condition.