- Title
- Meckel's diverticulectomy: a multi-centre 19-year retrospective study
- Creator
- Tree, Kevin; Kotecha, Krishna; Reeves, Jenna; Aitchison, Lucy; Noeline Chui, Juanita; Gill, Aanthony J.; Mittal, Anubhav; Samra, Jaswinder S.
- Relation
- ANZ Journal of Surgery Vol. 93, Issue 5, p. 1120-1451
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ans.18351
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Background: Meckels diverticulum (MD) causes a number of acute surgical pathologies and can contain ectopic tissue with the surgical aim to resect all ectopic mucosa. This has traditionally implied a small bowel resection (BR); though contemporary literature has demonstrated Meckel's diverticulectomy to be safe. The aim of this study was to determine optimal resection strategy, and assess MD histopathological features and their relationship to outcomes.Methods: A 19-year retrospective review of patient medical records across seven hospitals was conducted with demographic, clinical and pathological data collected. Analysis was conducted using a student's t-test for continuous variables and chi-squared test for categorical variables. Univariate regression was performed to identify risk factors. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: One hundred and sixty patients underwent resection of MD, 70 (44%) had Meckel's diverticulectomy and 90 (56%) had BR. No significant difference in length (P = 0.486), width (P = 0.238), or ratio (P = 0.188) of diverticulectomy compared to BR, with fewer complications in diverticulectomy. In all, 24 (15.3%) MD were perforated, of whom 5 had gastric mucosa, 2 had mixed ectopic mucosa and 1 carcinoid tissue. There were no cases of ectopic mucosa in the resection margin requiring re-operation, or causing base perforation. MD specimen with greater length: width ratio was a risk factor for perforation OR 1.437 P = 0.042 but not for malignancy P = 0.813 or ectopic tissue P = 0.185.Conclusion: Meckel's diverticulectomy is safe via laparoscopic or open approach compared with BR. Despite higher perforation rates in MD with greater length: width ratio, no malignancy or ectopic risk was identified, supporting diverticulectomy as a safe operative approach.
- Subject
- general surgery; intestine; laparoscopy; management; meckel’s diverticulum; small
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1480655
- Identifier
- uon:50549
- Identifier
- ISSN:1445-1433
- Rights
- © 2023 The Authors. ANZ Journal of Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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