title: [Meckel's diverticulum in childhood. Personal experience and actualization].
abstract: The authors present 40 cases of Meckel's diverticulum in pediatric patients (average age 6.8 years old). 31 of these (77.5%) were discovered casually in surgery and the other nine (22.5%) presented specific symptoms (three intestinal intussusceptions, three perforations, one hemorrhage, a wet umbilicus and an intestinal obstruction). In this group, seven abdominal radionuclide scan were practiced with 99mTc, resulting in two positive diagnosis (28.5%). All patients were treated with short ileal resection. The histopathological study revealed in nine cases (22.5%) the presence of gastric ectopic mucosa and, in one of them, pancreatic tissue was also found. The only morbidity was a postoperative intestinal obstruction that occurred several months later and that required surgery. The mortality was zero and the average hospital stay was 8.6 days.
authors.affiliation: Servicio Cirugía Pediátrica, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Valoria Villamartín
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Digiuni Avalis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pérez Tejerizo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence
vernacular_title: El divertículo de Meckel en la infancia. Actualización y experiencia personal.