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| Year : 2010 | Volume
: 15
| Issue : 3 | Page : 104-105 |
Bowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication
Minakshi Sham, Dileep Phadke, Dasmit Singh
Department of Paediatric Surgery, B.J. Medical College & Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune - 411 001, India
Correspondence Address:
Minakshi Sham
B/15, Ajinkya Nagari, Behind Spencer's Daily, Karvenagar, Pune - 411 052
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.71754
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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