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Roux-en-Y partial volvulus in biliary-digestive reconstruction in children

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Various complications occur after a biliary-digestive reconstruction.Volvulus of a segment of the biliodigestive loop has not been described.Two patients who underwent biliodigestive bypass, years later, began with sudden and intense abdominal pain, associated with a volvulus with necrosis of a segment of this biliodigestive loop.This complication occurred many years after the initial correction, and manifested with sudden abdominal pain without impaired liver function, as occurred in these patients.

Source: Cirugía y Cirujanos (English Edition)

DOI: 10.24875/cirue.m22000717

Authors: Carlos García-Hernández, Christian Archivaldo-García, Gerardo Izundegui-Ordóñez, Joel Cazares-Rangel, Lourdes Carvajal-Figueroa, Ramiro A. Ramirez-Martinez, Sergio Landa-Juárez

Language: English

Topic: Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4404129772

FWCI: 0.383

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