Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon

To the best of our knowledge there is no reported case of Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) in Cameroon. The prevalence of MD in the general population is 2–3 %. The aim of this paper is to recapitulate the role of this pathology in acute abdomens and abdominal pain of uncertain aetiology in young patients...

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Autores principales: Guifo, Marc Leroy, Verla, Vincent Siysi, Chichom, Alain Mefiré, Ndoumbé, Aurelien, Essomba, Arthur, Takongmo, Samuel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Field Epidemiology Network 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21532715
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author Guifo, Marc Leroy
Verla, Vincent Siysi
Chichom, Alain Mefiré
Ndoumbé, Aurelien
Essomba, Arthur
Takongmo, Samuel
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description To the best of our knowledge there is no reported case of Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) in Cameroon. The prevalence of MD in the general population is 2–3 %. The aim of this paper is to recapitulate the role of this pathology in acute abdomens and abdominal pain of uncertain aetiology in young patients and to review the medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-29842972010-11-30 Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon Guifo, Marc Leroy Verla, Vincent Siysi Chichom, Alain Mefiré Ndoumbé, Aurelien Essomba, Arthur Takongmo, Samuel Pan Afr Med J Case report To the best of our knowledge there is no reported case of Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) in Cameroon. The prevalence of MD in the general population is 2–3 %. The aim of this paper is to recapitulate the role of this pathology in acute abdomens and abdominal pain of uncertain aetiology in young patients and to review the medical literature. African Field Epidemiology Network 2009-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2984297/ /pubmed/21532715 Text en Copyright © 2009 Marc Leroy Guifo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Guifo, Marc Leroy
Verla, Vincent Siysi
Chichom, Alain Mefiré
Ndoumbé, Aurelien
Essomba, Arthur
Takongmo, Samuel
Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title_full Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title_fullStr Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title_short Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
title_sort meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the university hospital center yaoundé, cameroon
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21532715
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