Abstract

A 39-year-old man with abdominal pain, fever and general poor state. Physical examination showed fever, Tachycardia, Left basal hypoventilation and acute surgical abdomen. A Abdominal X-Ray showed accumulation of calcifications in mesogastric. The laboratory test showed leukocytosis and the abdominal CT-Scan showed the cause of the acute surgical abdomen. The laparoscopic surgery was recommended and performed. A 12-inch angle of Treitz was found perforated diverticulum which was covered with omentum. Forty inches of jejunum including the perforated diverticulum were resected. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the sixth postoperative day. The pathological evaluation revealed a perforated jejunal diverticulum and diverticulosis yeyunal.

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