NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Diverticula

Congenital - entire thickness of the intestinal wall is outpouched. Meckel's diverticulum is an example, the most common one.
Acquired - only the mucosa and the submucosa are outpouched.

Also see

Meckel's Diverticulum
Colonic Diverticulum.
diverticulitis

Categories: Medicine stubs

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Med-Lib - Medical Online Library - English Articles - Oxford Textbook of Surgery - Duodenal diverticula and duodenal ... (4678 words)
	Diverticula cause symptoms in only a minority of patients, but their presence should not be ignored in the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal events.
	The assumption is that extraluminal duodenal diverticula are rare in those under the age of 30, but may be present in up to 20 per cent of the general population with increasing age.
	Ninety per cent of duodenal diverticula are asymptomatic and are detected incidentally during radiological or endoscopic investigation of the upper gastrointestinal tract for an unrelated disease.

DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON - Patients - American College of Gastroenterology (796 words)
	While diverticula can be present anywhere in the entire digestive tract, they are most common on the left side of the large intestine, the area known as the descending and sigmoid colon (Figure 1).
	Diverticula as well as polyps and other growths can be seen with this instrument.
	Diverticulitis is an inflammation and/or infection of one of the diverticula.

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