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  • Title: [Meckel's diverticulum in childhood. Personal experience and actualization].
    Author: Valoria Villamartín JM, Digiuni Avalis EM, Pérez Tejerizo G.
    Journal: Cir Pediatr; 1994 Jan; 7(1):17-20. PubMed ID: 8204423.
    Abstract:
    The authors present 40 cases of Meckel's diverticulum in pediatric patients (average age 6.8 years old). 31 of these (77.5%) were discovered casually in surgery and the other nine (22.5%) presented specific symptoms (three intestinal intussusceptions, three perforations, one hemorrhage, a wet umbilicus and an intestinal obstruction). In this group, seven abdominal radionuclide scan were practiced with 99mTc, resulting in two positive diagnosis (28.5%). All patients were treated with short ileal resection. The histopathological study revealed in nine cases (22.5%) the presence of gastric ectopic mucosa and, in one of them, pancreatic tissue was also found. The only morbidity was a postoperative intestinal obstruction that occurred several months later and that required surgery. The mortality was zero and the average hospital stay was 8.6 days.
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