Meckel’s diverticulum as an occasional finding during major surgery. What to do? Case report and literature review

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Paolo Izzo
Daniela Messineo
Giuliano D’Onghia
Sara Izzo
Luciano Izzo

Abstract

 

Meckel’s Diverticulum is the most frequent congenital anomaly of the digestive system in the population, with a prevalence of 2% on results of a postmortem. Clinically, it can remain silent through all life, or it gets complicated in an acute abdomen sight.


In emergency, we can find Meckel’s Diverticulum much more in childhood than in adult subjects, with a ratio of 2:1, and, therefore, it joins differential diagnosis with other pathologies being able to cause acute abdomen sight. In adult subjects that doesn’t happen: usually, we can achieve the diagnosis sureness only during an exploratory laparotomy.


The Authors report the clinic case of a Meckel’s Diverticulum found in a 78 years old patient during an exploratory laparotomy like accidental discovery.


 

 


 

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How to Cite
Izzo, Paolo, et al. “Meckel’s Diverticulum As an Occasional Finding During Major Surgery. What to Do? Case Report and Literature Review”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 10, no. September, Sept. 2021, pp. 1-4, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/750.
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Author Biographies

Paolo Izzo, Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Policlinico “Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

 

 

     

Daniela Messineo, Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

 

 

     

Giuliano D’Onghia, Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Policlinico “Umberto I”, Rome, Italy

 

 

         

Sara Izzo, Unit of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurologic, Metabolic and Ageing Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

 

 

     

Luciano Izzo, Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Policlinico “Umberto I”, Rome, Italy