Stapler resection of Meckel's diverticulum during gynecologic cancer surgery.

Stapler resection of Meckel's diverticulum was performed on 16 patients with known or presumed gynecologic malignancy at the time of extended abdominal surgery. All diverticulectomies were done quickly and without morbidity. Heterotropic gastric epithelium was found in one diverticulum, and one other patient with stage III ovarian adenocarcinoma had metastases to the serosa of her Meckel's diverticulum.