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Meckel's Diverticulum

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  • Ernesto P. Molmenti, M.D.,
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Figure 1. A 50-year-old obese man who sustained a closed traumatic injury to the abdomen in a motor vehicle accident was taken to the operating room, where a splenectomy was performed for a splenic laceration. He was also found to have several contusions in the mesentery of the small intestine, including one at the site of a Meckel's diverticulum. No resection was necessary. As with most patients, he had had no symptoms as a result of this diverticulum, and he recovered from surgery uneventfully.

Ernesto P. Molmenti, M.D.
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75246

Robert W. Thompson, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110

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