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| Year : 2002 | Volume
: 7
| Issue : 2 | Page : 83-85 |
Unique presentation of meckel's diverticulum
A Wakhlu
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King George's Medical College, Lucknow - 226 003
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A Wakhlu
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King George's Medical College, Lucknow - 226 003
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ABSTRACT: This report describes an unusual presentation of Meckel's diverticulum in a 2-day old male neonate. The clinical presentation was small bowel obstruction. Plain abdominal X-ray was suggestive of segmental small bowel dilatation. Laparotomy revealed a greatly distended Meckel's diverticulum; the intestine immediately distal to the diverticulum was kinked and trapped in its own anomalous artery. Resection of the distended diverticulum and restoration of bowel continuity was curative. This is a unique presentation of massive dilatation of Meckel's diverticulum in a neonate.
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