“Learning from my experience”: Acute abdomen - Perforated Meckel's diverticulitis

This is a case report documenting the risk in imaging misinterpretation of a pediatric patient that presented with an acute abdomen. Computed Tomography (CT) demonstrated an inflamed blind ending loop of bowel in the pelvis without an obvious cecal connection. The patient was taken to the operative...

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Main Authors: William Janika Brackett, Shikha Khullar-Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:European Journal of Radiology Open
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235204771930019X