Enucleation for intestinal duplications: a comparative study with intestinal resection and anastomosis

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• Duplication enucleation allows faster return to feeding (1 vs 3 days) and shorter hospital stay (4 vs 6 days) compared to resection-anastomosis.
• Enucleation can be performed laparoscopically in select cases, offering minimally invasive treatment for intestinal duplications.
• Histological analysis showed 68% of resected duplications had muscular layer, suggesting enucleation is anatomically feasible in most cases.
• Enucleation does not increase postoperative complications compared to traditional resection with anastomosis.
• Prenatal detection of cystic lesions was more common in enucleation cases (70%) versus resection cases (46%), though not statistically significant.

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