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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Steinau, G.a; * | Krischer, S.a | Staatz, G.b | Marx, A.a | Schumpelick, V.a
Affiliations: [a] Surgical Clinic, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany | [b] Radiological Clinic, Rheinisch Westfälische Technisch University of Aachen, Aachen, Gemany
Correspondence: [*] Present address of author: Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstraße 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany. Tel.: +49 241 8089 346; Fax: +49 241 8888 417; E-mail: gsteinau@post.klinikum.rwth-aachen.de.
Abstract: Extrahepatic bile duct disease is a rare finding in infancy and early childhood. However, there is an increasing number of patients operated at this age reported in the literature. This increase may have multifactorial reasons, e.g. real increase, better ability of detection as a result of better diagnostic techniques and knowledge of predisposing factors of extrahepatic bile duct disease in childhood, especially in early childhood and infancy. The following report describes three cases of extrahepatic bile duct disease in infancy and early childhood treated at the Department of Surgery of the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany. From 1986 to 1998 28 Patients below 18 years were operated at our Department of Surgery. There was a recognizable increase of patients in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Whereas from 1986 to 1995 an average of 1.5 Cholecystectomies in pediatric patients were done, the years from 1996 to 1998 show an average of 5,33 patients operated per year. Every patient obtained a Cholecystectomy – 15 conventional open Cholecystectomies and 13 Laparoscopies, which were primarily performed in children in our clinic in 1991. Besides cholecystectomy in one case a Hepaticoenterostomy was necessary and in another case surgical treatment of the Papilla of Vater and the Common Bile Duct was performed. In 22 patients symptomatic Cholelithiasis was the indication for a Cholecystectomy. Another Patient had a gallbladder polyp consisting of heterotopic Duodenal glands, two patients showed a shock gallbladder following trauma and cardiac operation and three patients had chronic Cholecystitis without gallstones. Clinical data was collected and retrospectively reviewed. Additionally, we created a personal questionnaire to carry through a follow-up. Three Patients were less than 3 1/2 years old. The youngest patient was only 5 months old and presented with Cholelithiasis and Choledocholithiasis. Another male patient, aged 2 years received a Cholecystectomy and a Hepaticoenterostomy because of a Choledochal Cyst Type Ib (Todani-Classification). And a 3-year-old-girl had a shock gallbladder caused by thromboembolism following cardiac operation nine days before.
Keywords: cholelithiasis, choledocholithiasis, choledochal cyst, infancy, early childhood, shock gallbladder
DOI: 10.3233/THC-2002-10104
Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 33-37, 2002
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