title: Pancreatic anastomosis disruption seven years postpancreaticoduodenectomy.
abstract: We are reporting a case of a 22 year-old female patient, who underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy previously for a solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas and was re-admitted seven years later with a pancreatic leak following disruption of the pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a large collection at the level of the pancreatic anastomosis with major disruption of the pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis. The pancreatic stump was refreshed as well as the jejunal site and a duct to mucosa anastomosis was performed. She remains well with a follow up of 18 months.
authors.affiliation: HPB and Liver Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, 961 Beirut, Lebanon.
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