title: Intussusception in children and adults in Zaria: a comparison.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare and contrast the symptomatology and the anatomical type of the intussusception in children and adults in Zaria.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  93 patients with intussusception.
  
  
  METHODS
  Frequency of intussusception.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Colicky abdominal pain featured often enough in both groups with most symptoms and signs decreasing in frequency from infancy to adulthood. The ratio of small bowel to large bowel disease in infants, older children and adults was 1;8:1, 0;6:1 and 1:1 respectively. Infantile intussusception involving the small bowel was more common, and in older children large bowel involvement was commoner, while 50pc of adult intussusceptions were paradoxically small bowel. Overall, small bowel intussusception was most common with the ileocolic variety predominating.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most common type of intussusception in our environment is the ileocolic variety.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ameh
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Dogo
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Nmadu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007420:Intestine, Large; D007421:Intestine, Small; D007443:Intussusception / Q000145:classification* / Q000150:complications*; D009549:Nigeria; D012189:Retrospective Studies