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Treatment by Double Sphincteroplasty

Joseph P. Archie, Jr, MD; Harry M. Murray, Jr, MD

Arch Surg. 1978;113(2):180-181.

Abstract
• A patient with a symptomatic duodenal polyp was found at operation to have a 4 cm diameter adenomatous polyp of the ampulla of Vater, with both the common bile duct and pancreatic duct passing through the stalk and emptying from the polyp. The polyp was excised at the base of the stalk, and the two ducts reconstructed by a double spincteroplasty technique. The postoperative course and 2 year follow-up have been uneventful.

(Arch Surg 113:180-181, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 26, 1977.

Reprint requests to Carraway Methodist Medical Center and Norwood Clinic, 1615 25th St N, Birmingham, AL 35234 (Dr Archie).