: The most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract is Meckel’s diverticulum which a true diverticulum, involving whole walls small intestine. John Friedrich Meckel described embryological basis for midgut in 1809. complicated with enterolithiasis 3 - 10% cases. Adults are likely to present intestinal obstruction. primary enterolith and mesodiverticular band rarely cause acute bo...

Symptomatic enteroliths are relatively rare. Most occur from ingestion of undigestible materials such as pits or bones. Primary enteroliths are usually from the condition of partial bowel obstruction, diverticular type diseases such as Meckel's or congenital bands. Gallstone ileus is also a more common cause of gastrointestinal stones. Enteroliths associated with Crohn's disease is an extremely...

Q4: What are the possible treatment options? The simplest surgical option for small or crushable enteroliths is to milk them distally into the caecum and allow them to pass naturally. If this is not possible, the treatment of this condition is an enterotomy to remove the enterolith with or without resection of the segment of small bowel involved with diverticulosis. Resection may be advocated i...

Q4: What are the possible treatment options? The simplest surgical option for small or crushable enteroliths is to milk them distally into the caecum and allow them to pass naturally. If this is not possible, the treatment of this condition is an enterotomy to remove the enterolith with or without resection of the segment of small bowel involved with diverticulosis. Resection may be advocated i...