[Tactics of treating children with Meckel's diverticulum]

The results of the treatment of 102 children at the age of from 25 days to 14 years with the Meckel's diverticulum (uncomplicated--in 37, complicated--in 65) were analysed. Tactics of treatment depended on the state and age of the children, history of the disease, findings of roentgenocontrast and radionuclide study of the stomach and intestine, laparoscopy, macro- and microscopic picture, state of the abdominal cavity at the moment of operation. In most patients, the favourable results of treatment were achieved. The lethality was 3%.