Advances in pediatric surgery
- Volume 13 Issue 1
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- Pages.23-29
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- 2007
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- 2635-8778(pISSN)
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- 2635-8786(eISSN)
Experience with Tapering Enteroplasty in Intestinal Atresia
선천성 장무공증 환아에서 Tapering Enteroplasty 경험
- Chung, Jae-Hee (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
- Kim, Soo-Hong (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
- Song, Young-Tack (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
- Received : 2006.09.10
- Accepted : 2007.01.05
- Published : 2007.06.30
Abstract
Tapering enteroplasty was first described by Thomas in 1969 as one method of intestinal anastomosis. The advantages of tapering enteroplasty in the intestinal atresia are: First, it makes end-to-end anastomosis possible between the atretic bowel ends with considerable differences in diameters. Second, it promotes the recover of the postoperative bowel function. Third, it prevents the possibility of the short bowel syndrome by eliminating the need of resecting the dilated bowel. A total of 22 patients with intestinal atresia who underwent tapering enteroplasty from January 1988 to December 2005 at our institute were reviewed. In 3 of 22 cases, tapering enteroplasty was the