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A 3-year-old boy with a radiographic finding of an isolated invaginated Meckel's diverticulum is presented. The abnormality simulates a polypoid filling defect in the distal small bowel on barium examination. This particular manifestation of Meckel's diverticulum is very rare and has been reported only once previously. This article re-emphasizes the need to think about this possibility when a polypoid filling defect is seen in the distal small bowel. At the time laparotomy was performed, the abnormality had progressed into a triple intussusception, a rare surgical finding.
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Gaisie, G., Kent, C., Klein, R.L. et al. Radiographic characteristics of isolated invaginated Meckel's diverticulum. Pediatr Radiol 23, 355–356 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02011956
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02011956