An Unusual Complication of Bladder Diverticulum

Giant Bladder Diverticulum as a Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction: Report of a Case

“…To our knowledge, there are only two case reports of bowel obstruction caused by bladder distension, 3,4 A Medline search found only one report of intestinal obstruction directly caused by a bladder diverticulum, 5 and one report of a bladder diverticulum causing a small-bowel obstruction after the involved ileal loop was strangulated by an invaginated vesical diverticulum. 6 To our knowledge, the present report is the fi rst to describe a case of acute abdomen caused by mechanical intestinal obstruction by a giant bladder diverticulum.…”