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Unusual presentation of obscure Meckel diverticulum treated with robot-assisted diverticulectomy

“…The common cause of negative Meckel scan could be absence of gastric mucosa or could be due to absence of specific cell within the abundant gastric mucosa that uptakes pertechnetate, thus showing no appreciable uptake on scintigraphy. [ 23 ] In our case, ectopic gastric mucosa is shown to be present on histological report but the scintigraphy showed negative uptake. It could be due to absence of the specific cell that has high uptake of pertechnetate.…”