OBJECTIVES To report an unusual presentation of a giant sigmoid diverticulum in the colon. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION The patient presented with an abdominal mass, altered bowel habits, and increasing weight. The provisional diagnosis was made by barium enema and CT scan. The patient underwent laparotomy, revealing a perforated giant sigmoid diverticulum that was excised using Har...

Urinary bladder diverticulum is an outpouching of urothelial mucosa through bladder muscular wall. The present paper reports one such rare accidental finding of acquired urinary bladder diverticulum in a buffalo calf and its surgical management. A 3-month-old male buffalo calf was presented with a history of not having passed urine for the previous 15 days but with no signs of bladder rupture. ...

We used transurethral electrovaporization of the diverticular mucosa as the primary treatment for an acquired bladder diverticulum in a female patient. The bladder diverticulum was secondary to bladder outlet obstruction from a previous pubovaginal sling. In comparison to either open or laparoscopic bladder diverticulectomy, transurethral electrovaporization of the bladder diverticulum was effe...

IntrOductIOn Diverticulum of the gall bladder is an important but distinct anatomical entity with significant clinical implications. Congenital diverticulum of the gall bladder is one of the rarest of all anomalies, corroborated by its very low incidence and infrequent reports and references in the literature [1]. Diverticulum can be of congenital or acquired variety. The congenital type contai...

INTRODUCTION Bladder diverticulum is a result of bladder mucosa and submucosa herniation through the muscularis propria of bladder wall. Bladder diverticula are mostly seen in the elderly men in association with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). CASE PRESENTATION A 74-year-old man presented with complaints of vague epigastric discomfort, dyspepsia, and mild lower urinary tract symptoms. An ...

We report a case with a large bladder diverticulum caused by the bladder outlet obstruction, which was successfully treated with laparoscopic extraperitoneal diverticulectomy. The patient was a 71-year-old man, who had had dysuria, micturition pain and cloudy urine. We found the patient to have benign prostatic hyperplasia and a large diverticulum of the bladder. We removed the diverticulum by ...

INTRODUCTION Giant colonic diverticulum is a rare complication of colonic diverticulosis that occurs when a single diverticulum enlarges to over 4cm in diameter. There have been fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide since it was first described in 1946. PRESENTATION OF CASE The author presents a rare case of a giant colonic diverticulum that presented as a sigmoid volvulus. The patient unde...