{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T10:09:41Z","timestamp":1778321381511,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Pak J Med Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objectives: This study was done to compare the clinical features, laboratory findings and surgical outcomes of pediatric patients with choledochal cysts.\r\nMethods: Retrospective review of the hospital records of all pediatric patients admitted with choledochal cysts from 2011 to 2021 were collected and analyzed. Patients were divided into two groups; infant (less than one year age) and pediatric (1 to 16 years) for statistical comparison of two groups.\r\nResults: The study included 34 children, 9 (26.5%) were infant (&lt;1 year) and 25 (73.5%) were more than one year old. Mean age at diagnosis was 15 months with age ranging from 14 days to 16 years. Females were 19 (55.9%) and males were 15 (44.1%). Type-I choledochal cyst was the most common (73.5%), presentation followed by Type-IVA (26.5%) in our patients. Patients from infant group presented with jaundice in 7 (77.7%), and clay-colored stool in 3 (33.3%) as the most common clinical features, while abdominal pain (88%), vomiting (72%), fever (32%) and pancreatitis (32%) were the frequent presentations among older age group. Post-surgical complications of excision of choledochal cyst were observed in 4 (11.7%) patients.\r\nConclusion: Choledochal cysts have variable presentations depending upon age of the patients. Complete surgical excision of choledochal cyst is the treatment modality of choice and timely surgical management can prevent complications.\r\ndoi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.2.6196\r\nHow to cite this: Farooq MA, Khan SA, Malik MI. Choledochal Cyst in Children, presentation and outcome - 10 years\u2019 experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan. Pak J Med Sci. 2023;39(2):456-459. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.2.6196\r\nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12669\/pjms.39.2.6196","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,26]],"date-time":"2023-01-26T06:45:04Z","timestamp":1674715504000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Choledochal Cyst in Children, presentation and outcome - 10 years\u2019 experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan"],"prefix":"10.12669","volume":"39","author":[{"family":"Muhammad Arslan Farooq","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sabeen Abid","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Munir Iqbal","family":"Malik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4935","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]]},"container-title":["Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/6196\/1649","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/6196\/1649","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T09:30:26Z","timestamp":1778319026000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/view\/6196"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,24]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.2.6196","relation":{},"ISSN":["1681-715X","1682-024X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1681-715X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1682-024X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]]}}}