3 Meckel's Diverticulum and Congenital Remnants

rap, hip hop, acoustic chicago blues · 4:09

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Embryology lecture, pay attention to the gut
Vitelline duct should vanish but sometimes it stays shut
Obliteration fails around week seven, eight
A fibrous cord, a fistula, or a diverticulum waits
True diverticulum — all three layers of the wall
Antimesenteric border, ileum gets the call
Two percent of the population carry it around
Most completely silent, never making any sound

[Chorus]
Rule of twos, let it fuse into your memory tight
Two percent prevalence, two years is the age of bite
Two inches long, two feet from the ileocaecal valve
Two types of tissue hiding — gastric, pancreatic halves
Symptomatic in two percent — that's the fraction that ignites
Rule of twos, rule of twos, carve the numbers in tonight

[Verse 2]
Heterotopic mucosa — gastric lining out of place
Acid secreting, ulcerating at the base
Painless rectal bleeding in a toddler, classic sign
Technetium pertechnetate scan traces the gastric line
Meckel's scan lights up the ectopic gastric gland
Sensitivity jumps with pentagastrin, understand
Adults present differently — obstruction, intussusception
Diverticulitis mimics the appendix in its inflection
Perforation, volvulus around a fibrous band
The spectrum broad, the surgeon needs a disciplined hand

[Chorus]
Rule of twos, let it fuse into your memory tight
Two percent prevalence, two years is the age of bite
Two inches long, two feet from the ileocaecal valve
Two types of tissue hiding — gastric, pancreatic halves
Symptomatic in two percent — that's the fraction that ignites
Rule of twos, rule of twos, carve the numbers in tonight

[Verse 3]
Diverticulectomy — wedge it at the base
Ensure no heterotopic tissue lingers in that space
Narrow neck, inflamed, or ectopic mucosa found
Segmental resection with anastomosis, safe and sound
Primary anastomosis, end to end, restore the flow
Stapled or hand-sewn depending on the field below
Laparoscopic approach is feasible and clean
Inspect the mesodiverticular band when laparoscope is keen

[Bridge]
Now incidental Meckel's — the contested conversation
Discovered during laparotomy for another indication
In a child, resect it — the calculus is plain
Heterotopic tissue, narrow neck, a fibrous band attained
Adults asymptomatic — the risk of intervention
May actually exceed the lifetime complication tension
Anomalous remnants — omphalomesenteric fistula draining umbilical
Umbilical polyp, sinus tract, the congenital umbilical
Persistent vitelline remnants — vestigial, vermicular
A word for something rudimentary — obsolete but particular

[Chorus]
Rule of twos, let it fuse into your memory tight
Two percent prevalence, two years is the age of bite
Two inches long, two feet from the ileocaecal valve
Two types of tissue hiding — gastric, pancreatic halves
Symptomatic in two percent — that's the fraction that ignites
Rule of twos, rule of twos, carve the numbers in tonight

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