Intussusception is a common cause of intestinal obstruction in the infants and most often observed in babies between 8 and 12 months of age.
A clinical analysis was made in 69 children with intussusception who has been treated during 5 years and 11 months from January 1985 through November 1990 in the Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University Hospital.
The results were as follows：
1. The sex ratio of male to female was 2：1.
2. As to the age distribution, 82.6％ of all patients was occured during 1st year of life, and 60.8％ of all was between the third and ninth month.
3. As to the clinical manifestations, vomiting was most frequent(79.7％), followed by abdominal pain(71.0％), bloody-mucus stool(66.7％) and palpable abdominal mass (50.7％) in order of frequency.
4. Overall success rate of reduction by barium enema was71.0％, and it was decreased with the passage of time, i.e. 90％ within 12 hours, 89％ within 24 hours, 80％ within 48 hours, and 25％ later than 72 hours.
5. Body temperature or WBC count was not determinants about the management or outcome of intussusception.
6. Laparotomy was undertaken in 29％ of all cases, in whom 70％ was managed by manual reduction and resection was performed in 30％ of cases.
7. As to the anatomical types in operation group, ileoileal type was most frequent, followed by ileocecal, ileocolic and ileoileocolic type.
8. The complications were present in four cases(5.8％) and there was no death.
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