Intussusception: past, present and future

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Abstract

Intussusception is a common etiology of acute abdominal pain in children. Over the last 70 years, there have been significant changes in how we diagnose and treat intussusception, with a more recent focus on the role of ultrasound. In this article we discuss historical and current approaches to intussusception, with an emphasis on ultrasound as a diagnostic and therapeutic modality.

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Kimberly Applegate (2009)

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Aikaterini Ntoulia, Sasha J Tharakan, Janet Reid … (2016)

The objective of this study was to identify causes of irreducible intussusception after contrast enema and to correlate imaging findings with surgical and histopathologic findings.

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Intussusception. Part 3: Diagnosis and management of those with an identifiable or predisposing cause and those that reduce spontaneously.

Oscar Navarro, Alan Daneman (2004)

In the previous two parts of this review on intussusception, the diagnosis and management of symptomatic, "idiopathic" ileocolic and ileoileocolic intussusceptions, which are considered to result from hyperplasia of lymphoid tissue in the distal ileum, were discussed. In this third part, those intussusceptions with an identifiable cause including pathologic lead point, those due to gastrojejunostomy or other feeding tubes, and those that are seen in the postoperative period as well as those that may be asymptomatic or may reduce spontaneously (usually limited to the small bowel) are discussed.