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        <journal-title>Journal of Medical Insight</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2373-6003</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">510</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24296/jomi/510</article-id>
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          <subject>Research article</subject>
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        <article-title>Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Small Bowel Resection for a Large Meckel's Diverticulum in Adult with Persistent GI Bleed</article-title>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <year>2025</year>
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      <volume>2025</volume>
      <issue>06</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>2017 Journal of Medical Insight</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
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        <p>Symptomatic Meckel’s diverticulum is a diagnosis most commonly associated with male children under two years old. It typically presents with painless hematochezia and is diagnosed with a Meckel’s scan, which uses Technetium-99 to detect ectopic gastric tissue. In an adult with gastrointestinal bleeding, the differential is far broader, including an extensive and at times, inconclusive, work-up. Here, we describe a diagnostic laparoscopy for suspicion of Meckel’s diverticulum in a young adult male whose work-up showed evidence of small bowel bleeding without a definitive source. A large 6.2-cm, broad-based Meckel’s diverticulum was identified about 90 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve and resected via small bowel resection.</p>
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        <kwd>Laparoscopic</kwd>
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        <kwd>Congenital</kwd>
        <kwd>Diagnostic</kwd>
        <kwd>Adhesiolysis</kwd>
        <kwd>GI Tract Anastomosis</kwd>
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        <kwd>Surgical Debrief</kwd>
        <kwd>Male</kwd>
        <kwd>Adult</kwd>
        <kwd>Common</kwd>
        <kwd>Meckel's diverticulum</kwd>
        <kwd>diverticulum</kwd>
        <kwd>small bowel resection</kwd>
        <kwd>diagnostic laparoscopy</kwd>
        <kwd>GI bleed</kwd>
        <kwd>laparoscopy</kwd>
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