Letter to ‘Clinical diagnostic predictive score for Meckel diverticulum’
We read with much interest the article ‘Clinical diagnostic predictive score for Meckel
diverticulum’.[
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Jaramillo C
Jensen MK
McClain A
Stoddard G
Barnhart D
Ermarth AK.
Clinical diagnostic predictive score for Meckel diverticulum.
] From the title of this study, it is perceived that the authors were trying to devise
a clinical predictive score for diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum (MD). On the contrary,
the authors chose to select the patient population who were referred to them for the
complaints of lower gastrointestinal bleed, and later had the surgico-pathological
diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum. Ideally the title should have alluded to the fact
that the study is providing a predictive score for Meckel's diverticulum among patients
with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
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