Wilkie’s Syndrome: Case Report

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Vladimir Schraibman Marina Epstein Gabriel Maccapani Franco Milan Sapuppo Marilia Fernandes

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Vladimir Schraibman
Department of General, Gastric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil

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Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome (known as Wilkie's syndrome) is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal obstruction. A 34-year-old woman presented with nonspecific symptoms of postprandial fullness and important weight loss. After screening for other pathologies, it was diagnosed Wilkie’s syndrome. Within this case it was briefly reviewed the diagnostic study and treatment options including a description of the selected approach, a robotic duodenojejunostomy.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 20, Aug 2020
Accepted: Mon 31, Aug 2020
Published: Tue 08, Sep 2020

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© 2023 Vladimir Schraibman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.09.07