All issues > Volume 23(12); 1980

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1980;23(12):1024-1032. Published online December 15, 1980.

A Clinical Observation of Intussusception in Infants and Children.

Yong Sub Kang

¹Department of Pediatrics, Han-Il Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Intussusception is most frequent and emergency condition of abdomen in infancy and childhood. But the causation of that is uncertain. In the method of treatment, primary barium reduction was recommended. This is a clinical observation of 51 cases of intussusception from January 1973 to December 1977 at Han-Il Hospital. The result were summarized as follows; 1) In age incidence, 72.55% of the patients were under 1 year of age. The highest morbidity (54.90%) occurred between 6 months to 12 months. 2) Males were affected more often than females ; the ratio was 1.8 : 1. 3) In seasonal incidence, 31.37% of patients occurred in Spring. 4) In artificial fed partients, the incidence was higher than others (54.35%). 5) Among siblings the first baby was most frequently affected (49.02%). 6) In development states(their body weight) 43.14% of them were over 91th precentile. 7) The cardinal symptoms and signs on admission were vomiting (82.35%), mucous bloody stool(78.43%), abdominal pain and irritability(66.67%), and abdominal mass(58.82%). 8) Most common type of intussusception was ileo-colic(50.98%) 9) Etiologically 90.20% of cases were idiopathic, but only 9.80% had organic causes. 10) In 50.98% of cases, bariumm enema was performed successfully, and surgical management with manual reduction and segmental resection was performed in 47.06%. 11) The recurrence rate was 3.92%.

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