Year 2018 / Volume 110 / Number 3
Letter to the Editor
Inverted Meckel’s diverticulum in an adult patient diagnosed via capsule endoscopy

210-211

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2018.5347/2017

María Antonia Payeras Capó, David Ambrona Zafra, Carmen Garrido Durán,

Abstract
Meckel's diverticulum is present in 2% of the general population and its inverted presentation is rare. The most frequent complications are gastrointestinal hemorrhage, obstruction, intussusception and perforation. In general, these complications occur in the first two decades of life, and mostly before the fourth decade. We present a case of inverted MD that started as a digestive hemorrhage of obscure origin in a 77-year-old man who was diagnosed by endoscopic capsule.
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Publication history

Received: 29/10/2017

Accepted: 04/11/2017

Online First: 25/01/2018

Published: 28/02/2018

Article Online First time: 88 days

Article editing time: 122 days


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