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A 9 year old boy presented with acute abdominal pain and volvulus caused by a giant cystic Meckel's diverticulum opacifiedPreoperatively by an upper tract gastrografin series.
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Galifer, R.B., Noblet, D. & Ferran, J.L. “Giant Meckel's diverticulum”: Report of an unusual case in a child with preoperative X-ray diagnosis. Pediatr Radiol 11, 217–218 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00972056
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