Open AccessBowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication
Author(s) -
Minakshi Sham,
Dileep Phadke,
Deepak Kumar 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.