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VILLAMIL MARTINEZ, Ramón et al. Laparoscopic resection and hepaticojejunostomy for type 1 choledochal cyst. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2017, vol.56, n.1, pp. 62-67. ISSN 1561-2945.

Choledochal cysts are congenital dilatation of the bile ducts that typically affect the pediatric population. Cases of its type 1 are the more frequent. Serious complications may occur and the surgical treatment of election is the lesions' total resection followed by hepaticoenterostomy. Today this procedure is carried out by laparoscopic way with good outcomes. The objective of this paper is to report a choledochal cyst type 1´s laparoscopic treatment in a 5-year-old patient. There were not postoperative complications and the aesthetic and functional results after one-year follow-up are excellent. The choledochal cysts´ laparoscopic resection is concluded to be possible and its implementation is suggested to follow.

Palabras clave : choledochal cyst; bile ducts´ congenital dilatation; hepaticojejunostomy; laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy.

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