Spontaneous perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum in an adult female with literature review

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Estimated rates of accurate diagnosis

Citation	Patients reported	Number misdiagnosed	Estimated accurate diagnosis rate (%)
Yamaguchi et al. (1978) [17]	600 (287)*	566	5.7
Kusumoto et al. (1992) [24]	274	29	10.6
Bani-Hani et al. (2004) [20]	68	64	5.9
Sai et al. (2007) [25]	36	20**	44
Ding et al. (2012) [9]	15	13	13
Chen et al. (2018) [15]	233	134**	42.49

*Only 287 of the 600 patients had a preoperative diagnosis before surgery
**The remainder of children presented with GI bleed; thus, a misdiagnosis of MD with symptoms other than GI bleed approached 100%