The Surgical Significance of Duodenal Diverticula

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Abstract
DIVERTICULA of the duodenum are not uncommon, but reports of their surgical removal are infrequent. This infrequency reflects, probably more than anything else, the difficulty encountered in deciding whether a known diverticulum is the source of a patient's distress as well as the dangers involved in its excision. Because these lesions usually exist without causing symptoms and because, when they do, the symptoms follow no clear-cut clinical pattern, one should hesitate to submit a patient to a procedure of significant risk without assurance that the operation has a reasonable chance of success. Hesitancy and doubt continue, despite the knowledge that . . .

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