A Case Report of Small Bowel Obstruction due to Meckel Diverticulum

Farnoosh, N; Alijanpour, A; Kalbasi, M; Kamali Ahangar, S

A Case Report of Small Bowel Obstruction due to Meckel Diverticulum

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

N Farnoosh ¹

A Alijanpour ¹

M Kalbasi ²

S Kamali Ahangar ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Babol, Clinical Research Development Unit

² Resident of General Surgery, Babol University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Clinical Research Development Center, Babol, Iran

³ Research Expert, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Babol, Clinical Research Development Unit

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.

Keywords

Abdominal Pain

Small Bowel Obstruction

Meckel Diverticulum

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