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| | 03/14/06 - 06:05 PM  
 
   
 
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in a completely asymptomatic individual over the age of 2 in which there is an incidental finding of meckel's diverticulum what type of mucosa is most likely to be found? normal small intestinal or heterotopic?
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| | 03/14/06 - 06:16 PM  
 
   
 
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In completely asymptomatic I think there will b normal intestinal mucosa correct me if I m wrong
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| | 03/15/06 - 08:33 AM  
 
   
 
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actually i don't know, i found two sources with different stats. a surgical textbook says heterotopic tissue is found in only 5% of Asx pts, where as in another source it says in more than 50% of cases heterotopic tissue is found
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