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KMID : 0378019820250100139
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New Medical Journal
1982 Volume.25 No. 10 p.139 ~ p.143
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Clinical observation of infantile intussusception
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Abstract
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Intussusception is one of the most common causes of intestinal- obstruction in the infancy & early childhood.
This report is the the experience of this common problemm in pediatic age group in the newly founded medical school of the rural area Author experienced 48 cases of intussusception during one year peroid of January of 1981 through Decmber, 1981, and had ad the following result.
(1) Age & sex distribution does not much differ from the other reports.
(2) 85.4% of the patient came to the hospital within 48hrs after onset of the illness.
(3) Only 58.3% of the patient showed classical 3 cardinal symptoms at the same time, but this was much higher ,rate compared to thatt of Rosenkrantz series.
(4) Barium enema reduction was effective in 75/0. of the patients, and 25% needed operation, all of them being reduced only by manual reduction without resection of bowel.
(5) No operative mortality or complications were seen.
(6) Recurrence rate after barium reduction was rather high with rate of 8.3%.
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