Pseudocysts of the pancreas in children in Morocco.
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.
Kisra
M
M
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rabat University Children's Hospital, Morocco.
Ettayebi
F
F
Benhammou
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome