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Contrast-enhanced CT-scan shows a 17 cm-long blind tubular lesion, filled with liquid contents and inflammatory changes around the base, located at proximal ileum.
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Laparoscopic approach showed an enlarged congestive saccular dilatation with severe adhesions to surrounding tissues.
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Intraoperative picture of the giant Meckel's diverticulum.
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These findings led to us converting to open surgery via midline laparotomy, finding an erythematous, hard consistency diverticulum around 18 cm long, located at the antimesenteric border of the ileum, 50 cm above the ileocecal valve (Fig. 3).
"T shape" resection specimen, including Meckel's diverticulum and 4 cm of proximal ileum.
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