Bowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Bianchi technique
• bowel conservation
• giant jejuno-ileal duplications