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Marc Leroy Guifo, Vincent Siysi Verla, Alain Mefiré Chichom, Aurelien Ndoumbé, Arthur Essomba, Samuel Takongmo. Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2009;3:6 Key words: Meckel’s diverticulum, acute abdomen, difficult diagnosis, Cameroon Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/3/6/full Received: 17/08/2009 - Accepted: 10/10/2009 - Published: 15/10/2009 © Marc Leroy Guifo et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report from the University Hospital Center Yaoundé, Cameroon
Marc Leroy Guifo1&, Vincent Siysi Verla2, Alain Mefiré Chichom2, Aurelien Ndoumbé1, Arthur Essomba3, Samuel Takongmo1
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Yaoundé Cameroon, 2University of Buea, Cameroon, 3Central Hospital Yaoundé
&Corresponding author: Marc Leroy Guifo, Assistant professor of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Yaoundé Cameroon. Tel: +237-99918696.
Abstract
To the best of our knowledge there is no reported case of Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) in Cameroon. The prevalence of MD in the general population is 2-3 %. The aim of this paper is to recapitulate the role of this pathology in acute abdomens and abdominal pain of uncertain aetiology in young patients and to review the medical literature.
Resumé (par les auteurs)
Le but de ce travail est de sensibiliser sur le diagnostic du diverticule de Meckel. Cette anomalie embryologique pourtant créditée d’une prévalence de 2 à 3 % dans la population générale est peu ou pas rapportée dans la littérature médicale Camerounaise. Ce cas nous rappelle la place de cette pathologie dans les urgences abdominales surtout d’étiologie incertaine chez l’enfant et permet de faire une revue de la littérature s’y rapportant.
Mots clés : Diverticule de Meckel, abdomen aigu, difficulté diagnostic, Cameroun.
