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Case Reports
. 2017 Jun;67(6):942-944.

Perforation of Meckel's diverticulum with a foreign body mimicking acute appendicitis: A rare complication

Amaar Aamery  1 , Ruqaiya Al-Shehhi  1 , Kamran Malik  1 , Abdullah Al-Harthy  1
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Case Reports

Perforation of Meckel's diverticulum with a foreign body mimicking acute appendicitis: A rare complication

Amaar Aamery et al. J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Jun.

Abstract

Meckel's diverticulum mimicking acute appendicitis is a very rare condition encountered in practice. MD is asymptomatic in most of cases and only about 4 to16% of cases develop complications. Perforation of MD by a foreign body is even rarer being only reported in few cases in the literature. The surgical management might be wedge resection or segmental resection and primary anastomoses depending on the intra operative findings. We report a case with foreign body impaction in MD with perforation mimicking acute appendicitis.

Keywords: Appendicitis, Meckel's Diverticulum, Perforation, Foreign body..

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