[Intestinal diverticula].

The jejunal diverticula are a rare pathology, they are verifiable with an incidence from 0.06 to 1.3% autoptical reports. Furthermore, only 10-40% of them are symptomatic. Nevertheless, in this case the beginning is often acute because of a perforation or a hemorrhage. In both cases the medical therapy is associated with a mortality rate which is too high to be acceptable, so therefore, emergency surgery is the only possible choice. The authors present a clinical case resulting from their observation with an acute beginning, this case is used as a starting point for an accurate review of the international literature on the subject. The purpose of this study is to contribute to a correct understanding and approach to the problem, above all through an exact preoperative diagnosis so that unnecessary delays in surgery may be avoided when a patient's life is at risk.

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