An unusual cause of acute abdominal pain in a child: An inverted meckel diverticulum: Report of a case | Zendy

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An unusual cause of acute abdominal pain in a child: An inverted meckel diverticulum: Report of a case

Author(s) -

Yigiter Murat,

Kıyıcı Halil,

Yucesan Selçuk,

Hicsonmez Akgün

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of clinical ultrasound

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272

H-Index - 61

eISSN - 1097-0096

pISSN - 0091-2751

DOI - 10.1002/jcu.20681

Subject(s) - medicine , meckel's diverticulum , intussusception (medical disorder) , diverticulum (mollusc) , abdominal pain , lower abdominal pain , acute abdominal pain , hepatic diverticulum , inversion (geology) , radiology , surgery , paleontology , structural basin , biology

Inverted Meckel diverticulum has been reported as a lead point for intussusception in children. However all cases of isolated inversion of a Meckel diverticulum have involved adults in whom the diagnosis was clinically unexpected. We describe the sonographic appearance of isolated inversion of Meckel diverticulum in a 3‐year‐old boy with acute abdominal symptoms. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2010

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