probe coagulation, and endoclipping at the neck or dome of the diverticulum are the treatments most frequently used for bleeding diverticula [1,2]. We obtained hemostasis of a bleeding diverticulum by approximating the margins of the diverti− culum. A 77−year−old man was admitted for painless hematochezia. At admission he had hemoglobin level 8.1 g/dL and hematocrit 24%. After bowel preparation...

INTRODUCTION Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract. The perforation of a Meckel's diverticulum by a foreign body is a very rare complication. CASE PRESENTATION A 61-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with complaints with abdominal pain and fever, and abdominal rebound tenderness on physical examination. An intestinal per...

A clinical case of a 12 year-old girl with hydrocephalus complicated by rare condition, lateral ventricular diverticulum, is reported. Progression of the diverticulum was followed up according to MRI. The diverticulum of the lateral ventricular wall has emerged in the interval of 1 year (14 months have passed between the two MRI examinations) and spread towards the quadrigeminal cistern. In add...

INTRODUCTION Giant colonic diverticulum is a rare complication of colonic diverticulosis that occurs when a single diverticulum enlarges to over 4cm in diameter. There have been fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide since it was first described in 1946. PRESENTATION OF CASE The author presents a rare case of a giant colonic diverticulum that presented as a sigmoid volvulus. The patient unde...

Hernias containing incarcerated Meckel's diverticulum are rare and often asymptomatic. The proper preoperative diagnosis is difficult to establish. The presence of a Meckel's diverticulum incarcerated in a hernia should be consider in a differential diagnosis of abdominal disease that is not sufficiently apparent. We present a case of a 22 years old male patient with a Meckel's diverticulum inc...

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital anomaly of gastrointestinal tract, occurring in 2% of the population. More than 80% of patients are asymptomatic. Complications like intestinal obstruction, bleeding and inflammation of Meckel's diverticulum occur in 4% of patients. The case of a 42-year-old male patient with axial torsion and gangrene of giant Meckel's diverticulum is presented.

septum in a large mid-esophageal diverticulum A 72-year-old man who was complaining of dysphagia, regurgitation, and difficulty with passage through the esophagus was diagnosed with a mid-esophageal diverticulum with a diameter of 40mm. A contrast esophagogram (●" Fig.1), a computed tomography (CT) scan (●" Fig.2), and an endoscopic examination revealed that the diverticulum had a narrow neck a...

Colonic diverticular bleeding is the most common cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in adults [1,2]. Bleeding can occur from an injured branch of the submucosal plexus vessels at the neck or along the dome of the diverticulum [3]. While the majority (approximately 80%) of bleeding is self-limited, some patients can develop massive bleeding–perhaps because the submucosal plexus is derived ...

A right aortic arch is an anatomic variant only occurring in approximately 0.1% of the population. A mirror-image right artic arch without congenital cardiac anomaly is fairly uncommon. We report on a rare case of dysphagia due to isolated aortic diverticulum in a mirror-image right aortic arch. A 72-year-old man presented with dysphagia which was due to posterior compression of the esophagus b...

Background: Female urethral diverticulum is a condition which is often overlooked and frequently misdiagnosed. It is hoped that as a result of greater awareness of female urethral diverticulum more timely diagnosis of the condition would be made which would result in early appropriate treatment. Objective: The objective of this review is to summarize the presentation, investigation and manageme...