Choledochal cyst in a pediatric patient: creation of a bilijejunal anastomosis with surgical staples. A case report
Vallasciani, S.; Pintus, C.; Grottesi, A.; Riccioni, M.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 25(4): 281-284
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 15070273 Document Number: 553212
Although the use of surgical staples is a well established practice in intestinal tract surgery on adults, their role in biliodigestive anastomoses in adults and children has been more limited. The Authors describe a 12-year-old girl with a type-IV choledochal cyst, who was successfully treated with cyst excision and Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy created with a surgical stapler.