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The vast majority however are asymptomatic and therefore provide a management conundrum when discovered incidentally. We report the case of a 71-year-old female who presented with abdominal pain and bloating. She was taken for a diagnostic laparoscopy which revealed a partial caecal obstruction secondary to a fibrous band running from a Meckel\u2019s diverticulum around the caecal pole to the mesentery. The band had likely been severed from the umbilicus but not resected at a previous surgery. The caecal obstruction was relieved and the diverticulum resected uneventfully. 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