Bowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication.
The management of very long tubular bowel duplications poses a special challenge to even the most skilled surgeon. In these cases, mucosal stripping is usually employed. We report a novel case of a two-year-old boy, with 120 cm long jejuno-ileal duplication, wherein, bowel salvage was achieved, utilizing the Bianchi principle, originally described for bowel lengthening in cases of short bowel syndrome.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, B.J. Medical College & Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune - 411 001, India.
Minakshi
M
Sham
Dileep
D
Phadke
Dasmit
D
Singh