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A Report of Three Cases

WILLIAM SILEN, M.D.; WILLIAM H. BROWN, M.D.; MARSHALL J. ORLOFF, M.D.; DAVID H. WATKINS, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1960;80(4):597-601.

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Although more than 300 cases of jejunal diverticulosis have been reported previously, most clinicians consider this lesion an unimportant postmortem finding and do not usually regard it seriously as a cause of abdominal symptoms. Recent experience with three cases of jejunal diverticulosis, two manifested by severe bleeding and a third by perforation and obstruction, has prompted this report and review of the literature.

According to Walker,¹ Astley Cooper first described jejunal diverticulosis in 1807. The first roentgenographic demonstration of jejunal diverticula was in 1920 by Case.² The incidence of jejunal diverticulosis in routine gastrointestinal x-ray examinations has variously been reported as 5 in 6,847 (0.0006%),² as 1 in 5,000 (0.0002%),³ and as 3 in 996 examinations (0.03%).⁴ Autopsy series have been said to show jejunal diverticula in 9 of 2,820 routine autopsies (0.03% ),⁵ and in 3 of 5,000 cases (0.0006%)⁶ where such diverticula . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Denver

From the Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Denver Veterans Administration Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 10, 1959.

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