[Clinical treatment of small bowel diverticula: review of 32 cases].
OBJECTIVE
To retrospectively summarize the pathological features and management of small bowel diverticula of in 32 cases.


RESULTS
Complications of small bowel diverticula were effectively treated surgically with good short-term and long-term clinical outcomes. The diverticulum found during the abdominal operation should be treated in time. The complications from the small intestine diverticulum included inflammation, bleeding, stone, perforation and bowel obstruction which arised from the stagnation, impaction, and friction of the contents in the diverticulum or from adhesion zone of long diveritculum. The complications were closely related to the histology of diverticular wall, the type of heterotopic tissue of diverticular mucosa, morphology of the diverticulum and contents in the diverticulum.


CONCLUSIONS
The complications of small bowel diverticulum are the rare cause of acute abdomen which would be surgically treated effectively.
Zhu
Shui-ping
SP
Department of Surgery, Fenggang Hospital of Dongguan, Dongguan 523690, China. zetao@263.net
Li
Mao-qiang
MQ
Wang
Jian-yu
JY
Zhu
Ming
M
Dai
Cheng-fu
CF
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004238:Diverticulitis / Q000473:pathology; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies