title: Challenges and strategies for single-incision laparoscopic Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy in managing giant choledochal cysts.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Giant choledochal cyst (CDC) is thought to be a challenge for one-stage single-incision laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy (SILH). We herewith designed the strategies for SILH in surgical management of giant CDC children, and reported its outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-eight patients with giant CDCs successfully underwent SILH between April 2011 and October 2013. With guidance of an extra-long 5-mm 30° laparoscope, anterior cyst wall was punctured extra-corporeally using a 20-gauge angiocatheter. Cyst content was evacuated to create working space. A series of trans-abdominal retraction sutures were placed through serosa of gallbladder fundus, common hepatic duct and proximal to distal portion of anterior cyst wall to facilitate dissection. Cyst excision and hepaticojejunostomy was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age at operation was 6.24 months. Mean operative time was 3.18 h, significantly shorter than 6.3 h in our historical group undergone conventional laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy. No blood transfusion was required. Post-operative recovery was comparable to that of our historical CLH controls. Median follow-up period was 24 months. No mortality or morbidities of anastomotic stenosis, bile leak, cholangitis or pancreatic leak was observed. Liver function normalized post-operatively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Following the strategy, SILH for giant CDCs is safe and one can achieve outcomes comparable to those of CLH in experience hands.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 2 Ya Bao Road, Beijing 100020, PR China.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diao
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 2 Ya Bao Road, Beijing 100020, PR China. Electronic address: lilong22@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 2 Ya Bao Road, Beijing 100020, PR China.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 2 Ya Bao Road, Beijing 100020, PR China.
authors.forename: Mao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics and Department of Surgery, Southern Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia; Department of Surgery, Beijing United Family Hospital, PR China. Electronic address: wei.cheng@monash.edu.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D015529:Choledochal Cyst / Q000601:surgery*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007582:Jejunostomy / Q000379:methods*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008099:Liver / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male
keywords: Children; Giant choledochal cyst; Hepaticojejunostomy; Laparoscopy; Single-incision