title: Unusual presentation of obscure Meckel diverticulum treated with robot-assisted diverticulectomy: A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Meckel diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of gastrointestinal tract. Tough believed to occur in 2% of population, most of them remain veiled because majority are clinically asymptomatic and remain obscure in radiological examination.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 26-year-old male with episodic black colored stool since last 10 years. Tough symptomatic, diagnosis of pathological lesion, and the bleeding site could not be established with any of the sophisticated diagnostic technique. After 10 years, it was finally diagnosed as MD with careful observation of bowel loops on computed tomography enterography (CTE) where remnant of vitelline vessel and hyper-enhancing nodule are seen along the wall of diverticular loop.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patient underwent robot assisted laparoscopic surgery with excision of diverticular loop. To the best of our knowledge, this robot-assistant Meckel diverculectomy is probably the first reported surgical procedure in PubMed. Follow-up for 3 month showed no complication or recurrence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Every case is unique and we must be aware and remain alert in tracing the possible morphological variation of the case. Here, we present one unique but rare feature of MD, which helped us in making diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology Department of Pediatric Surgery Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
authors.forename: Sagar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: Miao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Chaogui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Junfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiuhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D053704:Capsule Endoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012371:Robotics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed