Pancreatic pseudocysts in children.

The clinical presentation and operative treatment of 15 children with pseudocysts of the pancreas were reviewed. All had a self-limiting process, usually resulting from trauma, and did well, regardless of the type of drainage. Those children undergoing internal drainage had fewer complications and left the hospital earlier than did those undergoing external drainage. However, there were no recurrences after either internal or external drainage, and the two fistulas which developed following external drainage closed spontaneously.