Complications of Jejunal Diverticulosis
- 1 April 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 80 (4) , 597-601
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1960.01290210065014
Abstract
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,1Astley Cooper first described jejunal diverticulosis in 1807. The first roentgenographic demonstration of jejunal diverticula was in 1920 by Case.2The incidence of jejunal diverticulosis in routine gastrointestinal x-ray examinations has variously been reported as 5 in 6,847 (0.0006%),2as 1 in 5,000 (0.0002%),3and as 3 in 996 examinations (0.03%).4Autopsy series have been said to show jejunal diverticula in 9 of 2,820 routine autopsies (0.03% ),5and in 3 of 5,000 cases (0.0006%)6where such diverticulaKeywords
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