title: Pseudocysts of the pancreas in children in Morocco.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Five children with pancreatic pseudocyst were treated from 1986 to 1998, 4 of these pseudocysts have a traumatic origin. Medical therapy reduces the pancreatic stimulation and favors the resolution or the maturation of the pseudocyst.
  
  
  METHODS
  First, all the children were treated with ultrasound-guided drainage. The duration of this drainage varied from 1 to 10 days with successful results in 3 cases. The internal drainage by cystogastrostomy was used in 2 cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first showed a cystogastric fistula in the fifth day of the external drainage, the second was drained 2 times without success. There were no pseudocyst recurrences, and children treated surgically were discharged home within 7 to 10 days after operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rabat University Children's Hospital, Morocco.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kisra
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ettayebi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benhammou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome