Occult Intussusception
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Intussusception
Intussusception is the invagination of one bowel segment into another. It is an emergent condition that most commonly affects infants between five and nine months of age, but it can also occur in other age groups. The etiology is usually idiopathic in infants five to nine months of age; neonates, older children and adults more commonly have lead points such as a Meckel's diverticulum or a neopl...
متن کاملAdult intussusception.
Recurrent abdominal pain is a common and challenging presenting chief complaint in the Emergency Department. Intussusception in adults, although rare, is an important etiology to consider. The diagnosis can often be delayed because of the nonspecific and intermittent nature of symptoms in adults. This report presents the case of a 37-year-old man with multiple Emergency Department visits for ab...
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Intussusception is defined as the invagination of one segment of the gastrointestinal tract and its mesentery (intussusceptum) into the lumen of an adjacent distal segment of the gastrointestinal tract (intussuscipiens). Sliding within the bowel is propelled by intestinal peristalsis and may lead to intestinal obstruction and ischemia. Adult intussusception is a rare condition wich can occur in...
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INTRODUCTION Jejunogastric intussusception through a gastrojejunal stoma along with a jejunojejunal intussusception (intussusception within an intussusception) is a rare but serious complication of previous gastric surgery such as gastrojejunostomy and Billroth II gastrectomy. The incidence of which is less than 0.1%. CASE PRESENTATION An elderly male presented with an abdominal lump, diffuse...
متن کاملAdult intussusception
In their study of adult intussusception, Sarma et al reported that, over a 6-year period, 15 patients with the disease were identified in a tertiary hospital in South India [1]. It would be of interest to know the total number of admissions or patients in the same hospital during the study period to be reported by the authors, so that estimates of the frequency rates of the disease could have b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.30.350.655