BACKGROUND Intestinal intussusception is a common pathology among children, whereas it is a rare entity in adults. The child/adult ratio is abdominal surgeries and in 1/100 patients operated on for intestinal obstruction. Clinical manifestations of adult intussusception are nonspecific and patients may present with acute, intermittent or chronic symptoms, predominantly those of intestinal obstr...

Unlike pediatric intussusception, intestinal intussusception is infrequent in adults and it is often secondary to a pathological condition. The growing use of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) in abdominal imaging has increased the number of radiological diagnoses of intussusception, even in transient and nonobstructing cases. MDCT is well suited to delineate the presence of the disease...

OBJECTIVES To assess trends in intussusception and to validate the coding in Hong Kong's computerised discharge information system. DESIGN Case notes were reviewed for all children under the age of 5 years who had a discharge diagnosis indicating intussusception or a procedure indicating reduction of intussusception during the 6-year period 1 July 1997 through 30 June 2003. RESULTS Intussus...

Introduction. Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults and is usually associated with an underlying pathology, benign, or malignant. This is a report of a case of jejunojejunal intussusception secondary to non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma in an adult patient. Case Presentation. A 74-year-old male with no previous significant medical history presented with symptoms of acute in...

Introduction: Intussusception is uncommon in adults compared with the pediatric population. Unlike its pediatric counterpart, intussusception in adults is associated with obvious pathology. small bowel intussusceptions are much less common than the ileocolic type, with jejunoileal intussusceptions being amongst the rarest. there are no reports of double intussusception in literature. We report ...

BACKGROUND Intussusception is a common gastrointestinal emergency in children and appears to have a somewhat different clinical spectrum in developing countries. Its etiology is still unclear, but a link to infective agents and viruses has been highlighted. This study aimed to assess the clinical spectrum and prevalence of intussusception in children from the diverse South African population. ...

Intussusception is uncommon among adults. Primary Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the intestine presenting as Intussusception in an adult patient is very rare. We report the case of a 46 year old man who presented as Intussusception and was found to have NonHodgkin’s lymphoma. He underwent resection followed by chemotherapy with, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, prednisolone and rituximab ...

We present a 31-year-old woman who developed ascending colon intussusception several hours after a routine colonoscopy where random mucosal biopsies were obtained. She underwent an ileocolic resection, and pathology did not show an etiology for the intussusception. Colonic intussusception occuring without pathology and after minimal intervention is rare.

Pleomorphic carcinoma is a rare aggressive type of lung cancer that uncommonly metastasizes to the bowel, leading to bleeding, perforation, obstruction, and rarely intussusception. Serving as a lead point, metastatic lesions in the bowel may precipitate intussusception and require immediate surgical intervention. We present a rare case of colonic metastases from a primary lung malignancy, causi...

BACKGROUND Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea-related morbidity and mortality in developing countries, including Bangladesh. The licensed vaccine Rotashield was withdrawn from the market because of an increased risk of intussusception. This study was undertaken to estimate the background incidence rates of intussusception among children aged <2 years, using retrospective and prospective...