This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (6)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

HAROLD S. TIDLER, M.D.; JOSEPH M. MILLER, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1958;77(2):185-190.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The differential diagnosis of hematemesis and melena includes many diseases of the entire gastrointestinal tract. One of the more unusual sources of such hemorrhage is diverticula of the jejunum.

The first description of diverticula of the jejunum was made in 1844 by Cooper.⁶ The patient was about 50 years old and had died of other causes. When the autopsy was done, numerous pouches were found in the greater part of the jejunum, situated chiefly between the layers of the mesentery.

The incidence of diverticulosis of the jejunum is low. Gordinier and Sampson¹¹ described a patient with partial intestinal obstruction due to diverticulitis occurring in a pouch located in the upper ileum or the lower jejunum. The authors collected the reports of 14,068 autopsies and found acquired diverticula of the small intestine in 16. Case⁵ reported 5 such instances in 6847 patients in whom complete barium meal studies, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fort Howard, Md.

Surgical Service, Veterans' Administration Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 3, 1958.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?