International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention
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Int J Gastrointest Interv 2019;8:41–44
Case Report
Percutaneous-transhepatic creation of a bilioenteric neoanastomosis in
a patient with bile duct injury using cone-beam computed tomography
Nathan Wnuk
1,
*, Ana Maria Pabon-Martinez
1
, Armeen Mahvash
2
, Gouthami Chintalapani
3
,
Thomas A. Aloia
4
, and Bruno C. Odisio
2
A B S T R A C T
We describe the creation of a percutaneous transhepatic bilioenteric neoanastomosis with the aid of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in
a patient suffering from a complicated bile leak after extensive hepatobiliary surgery. Access to the afferent bowel limb was safely performed in a
single-stick manner via transhepatic approach with the aid of real-time navigation fluoroscopic imaging generated by CBCT arteriography. CBCT
confirmed access of the afferent limb and absence of peri-anastomotic vessel damage, allowing the successful creation of a bilioenteric neoanasto-
mosis, resolving the patient’s biliary leak. The patient is alive and asymptomatic at 12-month follow-up, demonstrating patency of the percutaneous
bilioenteric neoanastomosis.
Copyright © 2019, Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention.
Keywords: Biliary intervention; Bilioenteric neoanastomosis; Cone-beam computed tomography; Fusion imaging; Percutaneous intervention
1
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
2
Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
3
Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
4
Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Received October 4, 2018; Revised December 30, 2018; Accepted December 30, 2018
* Corresponding author. MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030, USA.
E-mail address: nathan.wnuk@gmail.com (N. Wnuk). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2720-0120
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Introduction
Herein, we describe the creation of a percutaneous transhe-
patic bilioenteric neoanastomosis adjacent to the native surgical
hepaticojejunostomy with the aid of cone-beam computed to-
mography (CBCT) for procedure planning and real-time imaging
guidance on a patient with an aberrant isolated right posterior
bile duct injury following extensive hepatobiliary surgery.
Case Report
All procedures performed in studies involving human partici-
pants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the insti-
tutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964
Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethi-
cal standards. Informed consent was waived by our Institutional
Review Board.
Patient
This case report was compliant with the Health Insurance Por-
tability and Accountability Act and approved by our institutional
review board with a waiver of informed consent. A 19-year-old
female patient with Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome, pancreatic
neuroendocrine tumor metastatic to the liver and skip metas-
tasis to the bile ducts underwent a left hepatectomy, pylorus-
preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, duodenojejunostomy,
and hepaticojejunostomy. Immediate postoperative course was
remarkable for biloma formation arising from the excluded right
posterior bile ducts (Fig. 1), which was addressed with percutane-
ous abscess drain placement within the biloma and placement of
a percutaneous transhepatic external biliary drain. After multidis-
ciplinary discussion, the decision was made to attempt creation of
a percutaneous bilioenteric neoanastomosis between the aberrant
posterior bile duct and the afferent bowel limb.