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Intussusception is the commonest cause of acute intestinal obstruction in infancy and childhood. Sixty-one cases of intussusception were analysed. The clinical presentation of our patients is somewhat different when compared to the experience of other workers. There is a 9-fold male predominance. Passage of blood in the stools was the commonest presentation. In 46% of the cases there was a history of preceeding diarrhoea. Only in 43% of the cases an abdominal mass could be felt. 62% of the children needed resection of the gut because of either irreducibility or gangrene of the bowel. We had an overal mortality of 26%. The morbidity and mortality was very high in patients who had resection as compared to the patients who had reduction only.
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From the Department of Paediatric Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
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Rao, P.L.N.G., Prsaad, C.N., Mitra, S.K. et al. Intussusception in infancy and childhood. Indian J Pediatr 46, 126–130 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02896746
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