Gangrenous Meckel's diverticulum in a child patient: A case report

Abstract

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract in humans, occurring in about 2% of the general population. In this report we present nine year old male child from Al Mosul city who attended Al Zahrawi Private Hospital with history of abdominal pain for few hours duration which was gradually in onset started around the umbilicus and then distributed to the lower abdominal pain, the pain was so sever in intensity.and get worse by movement and breathing associated with fever and vomiting. Physical examination and routine investigations have been done which revealed acute abdomen. The patient sustained a surgical operation and the gangrenous part of the intestine was resected with end to end anastomosis.