Pylorus‐preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy with superior mesenteric vein resection and reconstruction in a child with recurrent hepatoblastoma after liver transplantation

Abstract

Pancreaticoduodenectomy with vascular reconstruction is rarely performed in children. We present a 3‐year‐old male with stage IV hepatoblastoma and pre‐treatment extent of disease (PRETEXT) stage III with tumor into the portal vein and superior mesenteric vein (SMV), and with brain and lung metastases status post chemotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery to left frontal brain lesion. He then underwent deceased donor liver transplant with Roux‐en‐Y hepaticojejunostomy complicated by two recurrences to bilateral lungs treated with wedge resections. His course lastly involved a third hepatoblastoma recurrence to the SMV that was managed with pylorus‐preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy with SMV resection and reconstruction.