Abstract
22 year-old male presented to our emergency department with abdominal pain and nausea. The abdominal CT scan revealed signs of a small bowel obstruction and the diverticulum at the terminal ileum. An emergency operation showed Meckel's diverticulum filled with ingested food, which had caused mechanical obstruction of the small bowel. Partial resection of the small bowel was performed. We could not find the any inflammatory sign in the resected tissue. Conventionally, bowel obstruction caused by Meckel's diverticulum is usually classified as described by Rutherford et al. in 1966. In our case, however, the dietary bowel obstruction caused by Meckel's diverticulum is not listed in this classification. Our cases is therefore a comparatively rare mechanism of bowel obstruction caused by Meckel's diverticulum.
