Is STEP the future for patients requiring proctocolectomy? A new therapeutic proposal from pediatric experience.
We present a pediatric case of medically unmanageable juvenile colonic polyposis, initially treated with subtotal colectomy and an ileostomy followed by a proctectomy, ileal-J-pouch and serial transverse enteroplasties (STEP) of the distal ileum. The STEP procedure in an adequate length was able to control stooling of our patient.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Greys Hospital Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Hansraj
H
Mangray
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Greys Hospital Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Fernando
F
Ghimenton
Juvenile polyposis coli; paediatric; proctocolectomy; serial transverse enteroplasties; serial transverse enteroplasty