[Emergent central pancreatectomy for a blunt abdominal trauma].

The patient was a healthy adolescent who suffered blunt abdominal trauma while skiing (direct impact of the abdomen against a post). He was brought to the emergency department of our hospital by ambulance. On admission, the patient was hemodynamically stable (blood pressure: 110/70 mmHg, HR: 80) with hemoglobin 12 g/ dl. He presented multiple abdominal erosions with signs of Digestive continuity was reestablished by means of a pancreato-gastric end-to-side anastomosis with interrupted PDS 5–0 in 2 planes by invagination of the pancreatic stump in the gastric cavity, protected by omentoplasty. The proximal pancreas was protected with a TachoSil sponge. Cholecystectomy was performed with external transcystic biliary drainage. The duration of the operation was 3 h 20 min, with c i r e s p . 2 0 1 3 ; 9 1 ( 8 ) : 5 3 5 – 5 4 6 545