Intestinal perforation in unusual location.

Intestinal perforation in unusual location. Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2019 Nov 07;111: Authors: Gómez Sánchez J, Zurita Saavedra M, Moreno Cortés C Abstract Meckel's diverticulum is the most frequent congenital gastrointestinal malformation and the clinical presentation varies from the absence of symptoms to intestinal obstruction or secondary perforation due to a foreign body. When reviewing the literature we found an interesting article by Fonseca et al., which describes the perforation of a Meckel's diverticulum by a fishbone. In this case, no imaging tests were used for diagnosis as there was a high clinical suspicion of a Meckel's diverticulitis. Recently, we had a similar patient to the one described by Fonseca et al. PMID: 31696721 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Rev Esp Enferm Dig Source Type: research