Diverticulectomy is inadequate treatment for short Meckel's diverticulum with heterotopic mucosa: Varcoe RL, Wong SW, Taylor CF, et al. Aust N Z J Surg 2004 (October);74:869-872

Abstract

The authors retrospectively reviewed adult and paediatric patients that had resection of a Meckel's diverticulum (MD) between January 1992 and May 2003 at an adult and paediatric teaching hospital. They sought to determine whether the resection technique should depend upon the external appearance of the MD. The authors measured the length of the resected MD and compared this to the width to obtain a height to diameter ration (HDR), with a ratio of ≥2 considered ‘long’.