title: Symptoms and surgical management of a distal choledochal cyst in a patient with pancreas divisum: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We report the case of a 63-year-old woman who presented with the rare finding of a distal choledochocele in a pancreas divisum with recurrent abdominal pain and episodes of pancreatitis. She underwent successful resection with choledochectomy, papillectomy and reconstruction with a hepatico-jejunostomy and reinsertion of the uncinate pancreatic duct into the same jejunal loop. Comparable literature findings are discussed with regard to the presented case.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Thilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hackert
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hartwig
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Werner