Laparoscopic Transgastric Gastrocystostomy Pancreatic Pseudocyst
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Leila Latic-Hodzic; Djuro Miskic; Ferid Latić; Blazenka Miskic; Josip Samardzic; Vlatka Pitlović
- Source
- Medical Archives. 65:371
- Subject
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Pancreatic pseudocyst
medicine.medical_treatment
Cystogastrostomy
Pancreatic Pseudocyst
acute pancreatitis
pseudocyst of pancreatic
transgastric laparoscopic cystogastrostomy
medicine
Humans
Laparoscopy
Gastrostomy
medicine.diagnostic_test
Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing
business.industry
Stomach
Open surgery
General Medicine
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Drainage
Pancreatitis
Female
Complication
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0350-199X
Article presents a laparoscopic cystogastrostomy of pancreatic pseudocysts. Pancreatic pseudocyst is a common complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. It is treated by drainage. Until the development of laparoscopic method, the only surgical type of treatment was a drainage of pseudocyst into the stomach or intestine by the open surgery. In a recent years, a new procedures of laparoscopic treating of pseudocysts pancreatic were published. Despite of the small number of cases it is legible that this certain method of operative treatment has clear benefits for the patient. Herewith, we present a laparoscopic transgastric cystogastrostomy of the 44-year old woman who was admitted because of acute biliary pancreatitis. She was operated six months after the acute attack.