Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rhodes, Elizabeth
• Stone, Trevor
• Spruill, Laura
• Hardie, Andrew D

Titel

A case report of inverted Meckel's diverticulum

Ist Teil von

• Radiology case reports, 2021-05, Vol.16 (5), p.1118-1122

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Inverted Meckel's diverticulum is an entity often discovered incidentally or through a clinical evaluation for gastrointestinal bleeding. While rare, inverted Meckel's diverticulum should be considered in the evaluation of a patient presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding, intestinal obstruction, or intussusception. In this case, a 67-year-old female with a remote history of surgically treated breast cancer presents to an urgent care facility with weakness and fatigue. She was found to be anemic with hemoglobin of 4. Imaging revealed a blind-ending pouch in the mid to distal ileum consistent with an inverted Meckel's diverticulum. Inverted Meckel's diverticulum is identified on computerized tomography as an intraluminal, blind-ending structure in the mid to distal ileum. The possibility of a lead point should be investigated and surgical resection is indicated to prevent intestinal obstruction.