Q. Least common complication of Meckel's diverticulum (NEET 2018)
a) Bleeding
b) Obstruction
c) Neoplasm
d) Obstruction
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7) c Neoplasm
The most common clinical presentation of Meckel’s diverticulum is gastrointestinal bleeding, which occurs in 25% to 50% of patients who present with complications
intestinal obstruction occur as a result of a volvulus of the small bowel around a diverticulum associated with a fibrotic band attached to the abdominal wall, intussusception, or, rarely, incarceration of the diverticulum in an inguinal hernia (Littre hernia)
Diverticulitis accounts for 10% to 20% of symptomatic presentations.
Neoplasms can also occur in a Meckel’s diverticulum, with NET as the most common malignant neoplasm (77%). Other histologic types include adenocarcinoma (11%), which generally originates from the gastric mucosa, and GIST (10%) and lymphoma (1%).
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