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Table 4.

Surgical techniques used to treat symptomatic Meckel's diverticulum.

	Diverticulectomy	Small bowel resection with end-to-end anastomosis	Small bowel resection with lateral–lateral anastomosis
Symptomatic
Hemorrhage	1	1	1
Obstruction	1	2	10^a
Perforation	1	—	1^a
Inflammation	—	—	3
Asymptomatic	3^b	3	—
Total	6	6	15

^{^a}

One patient in each group had manual suture reinforcement after stapling.

^{^b}

One patient had a manual diverticulectomy with a two-layer closure of the defect, and the other two patients had resection of the diverticulum with mechanical stapler.