title: Antenatal perforation of Meckel's diverticulum presenting as an inflamed hydrocele.
abstract: A newborn baby presented with an inflamed left hydrocele, which contained intestinal material. This was due to a Meckel's diverticulum that had perforated or separated from the umbilicus sometime before birth causing sterile meconium peritonitis.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D006848:Testicular Hydrocele / Q000151:congenital* / Q000196:embryology / Q000601:surgery