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Bowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication

Author(s) -

Minakshi Sham,

Dileep Phadke,

Dasmit Singh

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1998-3891

pISSN - 0971-9261

DOI - 10.4103/0971-9261.71754

Subject(s) - medicine , short bowel syndrome , gene duplication , ileum , surgery , general surgery , gastroenterology , parenteral nutrition , biology , biochemistry , gene

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.

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