Laparoscopic Sclerotherapy of Child’s Pancreatic Cyst

The paper presents clinical supervision of child’s post-traumatic pancreatic cyst. The described case demonstrates efficiency of comprehensive approach to evoked cyst treatment which comprises acute pancreatitis therapy with dynamic assessment of the results and subsequent surgical measure. The authors demonstrated capabilities of ultrasound investigation in this pathology diagnostics and conservative treatment complexity. The supervision is of interest because of unconventional approach to the operation: the patient received cyst laparoscopic drainage and sclerotherapy. The described minimal invasion resulted in absolute recovery.

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