Successful laparoscopic treatment of hemorrhage from ileal duplication cyst in a 10-year-old Saudi boy.

Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage often produces diagnostic difficulty in children. Endoscopy, radionuclide scans, computed tomography/magnetic resonance angiography, and conventional angiography have been the usual armamentarium for locating the site of bleeding. In recent times, laparoscopy has offered an effective tool for diagnosing various intra-abdominal, especially extraluminal, pathologies elusive to other modalities of diagnosis. In this paper, we present a case of massive hemorrhage from an ileal duplication cyst in a 10-year-old Saudi boy diagnosed and treated by laparoscopy. We believe this is the first such reported case from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.