Huang FC, Ko SF, Lee SY. Meckel's diverticulum mimicking infantile colic: sonographic detection.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND : JCU 2000;
28:314-316. [PMID:
10867673 DOI:
10.1002/1097-0096(200007/08)28:6<314::aid-jcu10>3.0.co;2-n]
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Abstract
We report a case of Meckel's diverticulum in a 6-month-old girl who presented with a 5-month history of chronic screaming but no symptoms or signs of intestinal obstruction. Infantile colic was the presumptive diagnosis. Abdominal sonography at 6 months of age demonstrated an abdominal mass with an anechoic center and a double-layered wall, surrounded by bowel loops. Abdominal CT and barium enema x-ray studies demonstrated nonspecific findings of a cystic mass with compression of adjacent bowel loops. Histologic examination of the resected mass revealed a Meckel's diverticulum with a perforation sealed off by the neighboring bowel and mesentery to form an inflammatory mass.
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