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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 2003;46(7):722-725. Published online July 15, 2003.

A Case of Ileocolic Type Intussusception Associated with Hematemesis

Young Hee YH Kim¹, Seung Soo SS Kim¹, Eun Sook ES Suh¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, SoonChunHyang University, Seoul, Korea

Correspondence Eun Sook ES Suh ,Email: essuh@hosp.sch.ac.kr

Abstract

Intussusception is a common cause of lower intestinal bleeding from five to 11 months of age. Typical symptoms are paroxysmal colicky pain, irritability, vomiting, abdominal mass and currant jelly stool, but hematemesis is rare. Though the most common type of intussusception is ileocecal type, it is rarely accompanied with hematemesis. Up until the present, hematemesis has been observed rarely but only in ileoileal type intussusuption for children and gastrojejunal or jejunojejunal type intussuception for adults who went through gastrectomy. We report a case of the ileocolic type intussusception associated with hematemesis in a 18 months old child.

Keywords :Intussusception, Hematemesis