Intussusception is the most common cause of intestinal obstraction in children aged 3 months to 6 years. Complete understanding of its clinical and radiographic manifestations can play a major role in the early diagnosis and treatment and prevents its complications. In this study plain abdominal X-rays of 51 patients with intussusception were evaluated. Suggestive radiographic signs of the dise...

Intussusception is a rare cause of postoperative intestinal obstruction in adults. We experienced two cases of bowel obstruction due to the jejuno-jejunal intussusception after harvest of a free jejunum graft for reconstruction after cervical esophagectomy. Bowel obstruction occurred early in the postoperative course, and reoperations were needed in both cases. In both case, the anastomotic sit...

INTRODUCTION Intussusception in adult is rarely caused by idiopathic conditions. Main causes are inflammatory diseases, benign or malignant tumors and motility disorders. As a benign cause, lipomas appear as a particularly rare gastrointestinal intraluminal tumor occurring with highest incidence in the colon, mostly in the caecum and ascending colon. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 57-year-old male pa...

Utility of 3D Visualization in Surgical Planning Khan M. Siddiqui, MD Case 1: Adult Intussusception Introduction: Intussusception is the invagination of one bowel segment (intussusceptum) into an immediately distal bowel segment (intussuscipiens). It can be classified according to the site of invagination as enteroenteric, colocolic, and enterocolic. By far, the majority of intussusceptions are...

Intussusception is commonly seen in infants. It is occasionally found in adults usually due to carcinomas, colonic diverticuli, polyps and rarely Meckel's diverticulum. An adult male presented with upper abdominal pain, nausea, anorexia and loose stools. The initial investigative workup was unremarkable and patient responded to treatment given for acute gastroenteritis. After 3 days, the pain r...

INTRODUCTION Intussusception in adults is a rare condition, accounting for just 5% of all cases. Approximately 50% of cases of large intestine intussusception occur due to a malignant neoplasm. We present here a novel case report of colo-rectal intussusception arising secondary to a primary rectal melanoma. PRESENTATION OF CASE We present the case of an 85 year-old patient, who underwent a co...

Conventional hydrostatic barium reduction or pneumatic reduction of intussusception is associated with considerable ionizing radiation. The aim of this study was to evaluate ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction for childhood intussusception using water enema. A total of 76 children who diagnosed as having intussusception were referred to Doctor Sheikh Children Hospital in Mashhad (northeast ...

Mesenteric lymphadenopathy is an inflammatory condition affecting the lymphnodes whose presentation classically mistaken for acute appendicitis and intussusception. It most commonly occur in children, adolescence young adults. The cause of mesenteric infection especially tuberculous. A 30 year old female having 8 month. complete case history was taken on basis repertorisation individualization ...