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Fig. 102. Fatal Intestinal Obstruction Due to the Passage of the Bowel through a Hole in the Mesentery of a Meckel's Diverticulum

(After Sheen.)

Attached to the umbilical depression was a bright red, bluntly lobulated, pedunculated tumor the size of a grape. Its surface was covered with mucosa. In the center was a channel one inch deep, and through the abdominal walls a cord the size of a lead-pencil could be felt extending backward into the abdomen. The child developed intestinal obstruction and died. At autopsy 25 inches of small bowel were found to have passed through the hole (A) in the mesentery of Meckel's diverticulum. Practically all the bowel between the diverticulum and the ileocecal valve had become strangulated. The strength of the constricting cord of mesentery was due largely to a vessel traversing it. Meckel's diverticulum was bulbous in shape and much narrowed where it joined the small bowel.

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Reference

Cullen TS. Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus. (1916) W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia And London.

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