Surgical treatment of colonoptosis in children

Abstract

The results of the treatment of 126 children with colonoptosis aged 7 to 14 are presented. As many as 45 children were operated. The operation was performed using the method of creating ligaments from peritoneal grafts and fixation of hepatic and splenic angles of the colon to them. The isolated colonopexia was performed in 7 patients (15,6%). In 38 patients (84,4%) colonopexia was supplemented by simultaneous operations: nephropexy, gastropexy, duodenopexy, cecopexy, appendectomy. The remote results at the period from 6 months to 5 years are followed in 40 patients. In 95% of the observations the results of the operations are considered to be good.