Case report: intussusception--a cause of chronic abdominal symptoms and weight loss.
A chronic clinical course for intussusception of the bowel in children is an unusual, but well recognized phenomenon. We report a case of a young child whose symptoms of vomiting and abdominal pains continued for over a month before radiological investigation made the diagnosis of ileocolic intussusception which was then successfully reduced by air enema.
Department of Radiology, Booth Hall Hospital, Manchester.
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Bisset
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007223:Infant; D007443:Intussusception / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D015431:Weight Loss