Intussusception of Infancy and Childhood

Childhood Intussusception

“…The symptoms, physical expressions and barium-enema findings in children with intussusception are markedly similar,12 Despite the improvements in diagnosis and management, however, the causes in more than 90 per cent remain unknown.1> 2,6,15 We present here our personal experiences with intussusception in infancy and childhood as seen at Pahlavi University during the past five years. The patients came in approximately equal numbers from the city, the villages around the city, and towns considerably farther away.…”