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. 2008 Aug 13:3:27.
doi: 10.1186/1749-7922-3-27.

Emergency surgery for Meckel's diverticulum

Raj Kumar Sharma  1 , Vir Kumar Jain
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Emergency surgery for Meckel's diverticulum

Raj Kumar Sharma et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

The current work attempts to highlight the various life threatening complications of Meckel's diverticulum and to present the surgical strategies used in the emergency conditions so far in the form of a review of the works presented in the literature. Our aim behind this presentation is to cover the possible indications, methods, their complications and the outcome of these surgical techniques. For this, we made an extensive literature search using Google and Pubmed with the words-"Meckel's diverticulum", "Complications", "Management" and "Emergency surgery". All the relevant articles containing the surgical aspects of symptomatic Meckel's diverticulum till May 2008 were collected and analyzed. Meckel's diverticulum is the remains of the prenatal yolkstalk (Vitellointestinal duct). Although it generally remains silent but life threatening complications may arise making it an important structure for having a detailed knowledge of its anatomical and pathophysiological properties to deal with such complications.

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Incidentally found Meckel's diverticulum.
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