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Symptomatic paediatric Meckel's diverticulum: stratified diagnostic indicators and accuracy of Meckel's scan.
Nucl Med Commun
November 2014
Departments of aNuclear Medicine bPaediatric Surgery cAnaesthesia, Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai Health Care City, Dubai, UAE dQueen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Purpose: The aim of the study was to delineate stratified diagnostic indicants and evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of technetium-99m (Tc)-pertechnetate scintigraphy in children with symptomatic Meckel's diverticulum (MD).
Materials And Methods: This was a prospective linear observational study conducted over a period of 5 years on 73 children with a diagnosis of symptomatic MD. The independent variables assessed were age, sex, weight-for-age z-scores, clinical presentation, complications of MD, laparoscopic findings, haematologic and biochemical results, radiological results, and histological findings.