title: Complicated Meckel's diverticulum in pediatrics: role of laparoscopy-two rare cases.
abstract: Meckel's diverticula are mostly asymptomatic. Even complicated disease is hardly diagnosed preoperatively and hence met with fatal outcomes, if not intervened on immediately. In this paper, we present 2 pediatric cases with complicated Meckel's diverticula that were diagnosed and successfully treated by the totally laparoscopic approach. To the best of our knowledge such cases have not been reported in the literature, so far. Nevertheless, we caution about keeping a high index of suspicion for diagnosing such pediatric cases and stress the need for an early laparoscopy in them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Minimal Access Surgery and Surgical Gastroenterology, GEM Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Coimbatore, India. drcp@gemhospital.net
authors.forename: Chinnusamy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palanivelu
authors.forename: Priyadarshan Anand
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Jategaonkar
authors.forename: Muthukumaran
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rangarajan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*