[Meckel´s diverticulum in adults - our five-year experience].

Material And Methods: Between 2005 and 2009, 19 patients underwent surgery with an accidental finding of Meckel´s diverticulum (MD) at the Second Department of Surgery in Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice. Twelve patients were primarily operated on for acute appendicitis, 3 of them for ileus, 3 patients underwent an elective operation for a gastrointestinal malignity, and in 1 case Meckels diverticulum was found during a complicated cholecystectomy. The average age of the patients was 40.