A Pediatric Case of Meckel Diverticulum with Uncommon Presentation Showing no Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract. Painless intestinal hemorrhage is a frequently occurring complication that relates to MD in children. Bowel obstruction is a rare complication of MD in children. We report on the case of a four-year o...

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Autores principales: Mehrabani, Sanaz, Osia, Soheil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435651
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2017.6973
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description Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract. Painless intestinal hemorrhage is a frequently occurring complication that relates to MD in children. Bowel obstruction is a rare complication of MD in children. We report on the case of a four-year old male child who presented with abdominal pain and hematemesis. Finally, bowel obstruction due to MD was confirmed at surgery.
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spelling pubmed-53792252017-04-21 A Pediatric Case of Meckel Diverticulum with Uncommon Presentation Showing no Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding Mehrabani, Sanaz Osia, Soheil Pediatr Rep Case Report Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract. Painless intestinal hemorrhage is a frequently occurring complication that relates to MD in children. Bowel obstruction is a rare complication of MD in children. We report on the case of a four-year old male child who presented with abdominal pain and hematemesis. Finally, bowel obstruction due to MD was confirmed at surgery. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5379225/ /pubmed/28435651 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2017.6973 Text en ©Copyright S. Mehrabani and S. Osia, 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A Pediatric Case of Meckel Diverticulum with Uncommon Presentation Showing no Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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