Todani choledochal cyst type II: case report and review.

Choledochal cyst is a rare pathological condition, which represents 1% of benign diseases of the biliary tract. It is seen with significant frequency in childhood, with a higher prevalence in females, and a greater diagnostic incidence in Asia. Diagnosis is primarily based on clinical suspicion. Its symptoms are variable, and its treatment, depending on the type, is surgical.

CASE REPORT: a male patient, 46 years old, with clinical symptoms of acute pancreatitis as a complication of a choledochal cyst Todani type II is diagnosed during his hospital stay with cholangial magnetic resonance. The patient recovers from the acute episode and undergoes a cystectomy with biliodigestive liver-jejunum bypass and a Roux-Y anastomosis.