INTRODUCTION In 1809, Johann Friedrich Meckel described the embryology of a small bowel diverticulum, which now bears his name. Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract, with a prevalence ranging from 1% to 4% of the population. The majority are clinically silent and are incidentally identified at surgery or at autopsy. The lifetime risk of c...

Meckel's diverticulum is the commonest congenital anomaly of the gastro-intestinal tract, being present at 2 % of autopsies.1 Approximately 4% cause symptoms and most present during the first decade of life.2 Hence, there is an awareness among clinicians of the possibility of the lesion presenting in infancy or childhood, but a clinical diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum is rarely considered pr...

Meckel's diverticulitis or Meckel's associated pathology frequently presents in childhood with gastrointestinal bleeding. It is rarely seen in adults. It is a congenital abnormality that commonly goes undetected. We present a case of a perforated Meckel's diverticulum due to fishbone ingestion in an elderly gentleman. The aim of this case report is to highlight the rare presentation of a perfor...

Vascular ring, caused by Kommerell's diverticulum and ligamentum arteriosum, in a patient with right aortic arch and mirror image branching is extremely rare. A 10-month-old boy with coughing and stridor was diagnosed as having tracheo-esophageal stenosis, which is caused by a vascular ring with Kommerell's diverticulum, ligamentum arteriosum, right aortic arch, and mirror image branching. Komm...

We report herein a patient with a urethral calculus associated with urethral diverticulum. A 39-year-old man presented with scrotal swelling and acute retention of urine. Computed tomography of the pelvis and cystoscopy demonstrated a giant calculus in the proximal penile urethra. Emergency in-situ lithotripsy was performed. Complete stone clearance was achieved and a large urethral diverticulu...

Inverted intraduodenal diverticulum is a rare congenital abnormality usually arising near the ampulla of Vater. We describe a case of an inverted duodenal diverticulum in a patient that presented with an upper recurrent intestinal obstruction that required surgery. Recognition of the entity and its anatomic relationships to the ampulla of Vater is essential to the prevention of iatrogenic compl...

Tracheal diverticulum is often diagnosed incidentally and, due to its rarity, there is no standard treatment. It is a benign entity, but has the potential to cause specific symptoms, such as chronic upper respiratory infection and chronic cough. Symptomatic tracheal diverticulum can be medically treated, but likelihood of recurrence is high. We report a case of surgical resection of symptomatic...

The etiology of pyelocaliceal diverticulum is believed to be congenital.(2,4) Calyceal diverticulum seen in the upper (70%), mid (12%), or lower (18%) calyx, arises frequently from the posterior aspect of the kidney and is usually unilateral. Although the typical calyceal cyst is smaller than 1 cm,(5) some larger ones are occasionally detected. Here, we report a huge extraordinary 18 × 16 cm ca...

Meckel's diverticulum is a rare detected anomaly.We present the case of a 13 months old male toddler dead shortly after he was admitted to the hospital. On internal autopsy examination abdominal dissection cream-brown fluid in abdomen was observed. In the ileum, 45 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve, 1 cm in diameter perforation area was detected, ongoing dissection revealed diverticular, pouch...