Balloon dilatation of postoperative small bowel anastomotic stricture in an infant with apple peel intestinal atresia after serial transverse enteroplasty and jejunoileal anastomosis

J Pediatr Surg. 2010 Dec;45(12):e25-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.08.049.

Abstract

We report successful fluoroscopically guided balloon dilatation of an early postoperative stricture of a jejunoileal anastomosis in a 3-month-old infant who underwent serial transverse enteroplasty for type IIIb apple peel intestinal atresia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Catheterization*
  • Dilatation, Pathologic / etiology
  • Duodenal Diseases / etiology
  • Female
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases / surgery*
  • Intestinal Atresia / complications
  • Intestinal Atresia / surgery*
  • Intestinal Obstruction / etiology
  • Intestinal Obstruction / surgery*
  • Intestinal Volvulus / etiology
  • Jejunal Diseases / etiology
  • Jejunal Diseases / surgery*
  • Jejunoileal Bypass*
  • Jejunostomy
  • Jejunum / pathology
  • Jejunum / surgery*
  • Parenteral Nutrition, Total
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Radiography, Interventional
  • Reoperation
  • Short Bowel Syndrome / etiology
  • Short Bowel Syndrome / surgery*
  • Stomach Diseases / etiology
  • Surgical Stapling*