Meckel's Diverticulitis Research Articles

A case report of perforated Meckel's diverticulitis in newborn infant

A case report of perforated Meckel's diverticulitis in newborn infant

Meckel's diverticulum. A review of the sixty-six emergency Meckel's diverticulectomies.

The potential dangers associated with Meckel's diverticulum are well recognized. Nevertheless, the management of the abnormality, when it is encountered incidentally during emergency operations performed for other conditions, is not standard. For example, it has been stated 1 that excision of the lesion is contraindicated when other intra-abdominal organs are acutely inflamed. In Weinstein et al's 2 series 30% of the diverticula were not resected since they were macroscopically normal and had wide mouths. It seemed worthwhile, therefore, to examine our results of 66 emergency Meckel's diverticulectomies. The Case Material The case material is summarized in the following tabulation: No. of Pathological Findings Cases Meckel's diverticula incidental to acute appendicitis 30 Intestinal Meckel's diverticula associated with obstruction 14 Crohn's disease 5 Gastrointestinal hemorrhage 4 Meckel's diverticulitis 5 Meckel's diverticula showing serosal vascular congestion, but otherwise normal 8 Total 66 Of the four patients who presented with rectal hemorrhage, in two the

Meckel's Diverticulitis with Secondary Appendicitis

Meckel's Diverticulitis with Secondary Appendicitis

Meckel's Diverticulitis with Appendicitis

Meckel's Diverticulitis with Appendicitis

急性Meckel氏憩室炎の一治験例

急性Meckel氏憩室炎の一治験例

A Case of Strangulation Ileus with Meckel's Diverticulitis

A Case of Strangulation Ileus with Meckel's Diverticulitis

Meckel's diverticulum

Summary A case is presented of Meckel's diverticulum causing symptoms of three years' duration before severity of the clinical course led to laparotomy and diagnosis. Meckel's diverticulitis occurs often enough to be considered in the differential diagnosis of the patient with abdominal symptomatology.

Perforated Meckel's diverticulitis followed by ileo-ileal intussusception in a young child.

Perforated Meckel's diverticulitis followed by ileo-ileal intussusception in a young child.

Meckel's diverticulum: Clinical and necropsy cases

A review is presented of twenty-three cases of Meckel's diverticulum, twenty requiring emergency surgery and three being incidental findings during the course of other operative procedures. The findings of the postmortem examination of the one death in the series are recorded. However low the present mortality is in Meckel's diverticulitis, it can be lowered still further by earlier laparotomy whenever the condition is suspected.

Pathognomonic abdominal sign for Meckel's diverticulitis.

Acute Meckel's diverticulitis in the adult does not often present a serious problem. Although the correct preoperative diagnosis is rarely made, it is not necessary for effective management. Usually the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is made, and this wrong diagnosis will stimulate the right surgical treatment as it does in many other rare abdominal diseases. The resulting mortality rate for these cases in the adult is therefore low, as the treatment of the diverticulum and its complications is simple and effective when early surgery is instituted. Likewise, a low mortality results from cases in which the diverticulum bleeds, for here also a stimulus for surgery is presented by the dramatic sign of copious hemorrhage from the rectum of a young person. Unfortunately Meckel's diverticulitis, although uncommon at any age, is most frequent in an age group that is almost free of acute appendicitis. In a recent series of cases of

Acute Meckel's diverticulitis with round worms in the peritoneal cavity

Acute Meckel's diverticulitis with round worms in the peritoneal cavity

Left Inguinal Hernia with Acute Meckel's Diverticulitis and Peritonitis

Left Inguinal Hernia with Acute Meckel's Diverticulitis and Peritonitis

Diagnostics urgents: Abdomen.

In this edition the author offers an exhaustive differential diagnosis of acute abdominal conditions without consideration of pathogenesis or therapy. The book contains chapters on acute peritonitis, traumas of the abdominal cavity, intraperitoneal hemorrhages, intestinal occlusion, other syndromes such as acute dilatation of the stomach, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, intestinal infarcts, torsion and volvulus of the intestine. Discussion of differential diagnosis is exemplified by case histories accompanied by temperature charts. Owing to the presence of many repetitions, several chapters are rather voluminous, 127 pages being devoted to the diagnosis of appendicitis, 89 to perforation of gastric and duodenal ulcers and 41 to Meckel's diverticulitis. While discussing appendicitis, the author applies the term "absurd" to a diagnosis of acute enteritis or spastic colitis. Reproductions of photographs are instructive but not attractive, because of a grayish appearance caused probably by overexposure. Certain omissions have been noticed: for instance, in the discussion of the

Diagnostics urgents: Abdomen

In this edition the author offers an exhaustive differential diagnosis of acute abdominal conditions without consideration of pathogenesis or therapy. The book contains chapters on acute peritonitis, traumas of the abdominal cavity, intraperitoneal hemorrhages, intestinal occlusion, other syndromes such as acute dilatation of the stomach, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, intestinal infarcts, torsion and volvulus of the intestine. Discussion of differential diagnosis is exemplified by case histories accompanied by temperature charts. Owing to the presence of many repetitions, several chapters are rather voluminous, 127 pages being devoted to the diagnosis of appendicitis, 89 to perforation of gastric and duodenal ulcers and 41 to Meckel's diverticulitis. While discussing appendicitis, the author applies the term "absurd" to a diagnosis of acute enteritis or spastic colitis. Reproductions of photographs are instructive but not attractive, because of a grayish appearance caused probably by overexposure. Certain omissions have been noticed: for instance, in the discussion of the