Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy

Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The diagnosis of symptomatic MD has been cumbersome. Several case reports been published regarding direct visualization of MD with double balloon enteroscopy (DBE); diagnosing a bleeding MD lead...

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Autores principales: Olafsson, Snorri, Yang, Julie T., Jackson, Christian S., Barakat, Mohamad, Lo, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23210023
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.99166
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author Olafsson, Snorri
Yang, Julie T.
Jackson, Christian S.
Barakat, Mohamad
Lo, Simon
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Lo, Simon
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description Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The diagnosis of symptomatic MD has been cumbersome. Several case reports been published regarding direct visualization of MD with double balloon enteroscopy (DBE); diagnosing a bleeding MD leading to surgical resection. We report the use of DBE for the treatment of a bleeding MD.
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spelling pubmed-35070742012-12-03 Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy Olafsson, Snorri Yang, Julie T. Jackson, Christian S. Barakat, Mohamad Lo, Simon Avicenna J Med Case Report Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The diagnosis of symptomatic MD has been cumbersome. Several case reports been published regarding direct visualization of MD with double balloon enteroscopy (DBE); diagnosing a bleeding MD leading to surgical resection. We report the use of DBE for the treatment of a bleeding MD. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3507074/ /pubmed/23210023 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.99166 Text en Copyright: © Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title_full Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title_fullStr Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title_full_unstemmed Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title_short Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
title_sort bleeding meckel's diverticulum diagnosed and treated by double-balloon enteroscopy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507074/
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