A Case Report of Small Bowel Obstruction due to Meckel Diverticulum

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Resident of General Surgery, Babol University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Clinical Research Development Center, Babol, Iran

Abstract
Meckel`s Diverticulum is a congenital anomaly of gastrointestinal tract that it can become symptomatic. Bowel obstruction due to Meckel`s Diverticulum is one of the complications that is common under 18 years but it is rare in adult age. In this case the patient is 58 year old man who presented with obstructive symptom and in exploratory laparatomy had been revealed a large sized Meckel diverticulum that adhesive to abdominal wall due to fibrotic band and adjacent ileum loops had been twisted. For the patient diverticulectomy and enteroraphy has been performed.

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