Volume : IX, Issue : XII, December - 2019

Adult intussusceptions- experience from a tertiary hospital

Sankar Subramanian, Jagan Balu, Sathiyavelavan Gopalan

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Telescoping of a segment of intestine into an adjacent loop is defined as intussusception. Intussusception is a very common surgical emergency in children. However intusussception an adults is a relatively rare cause of intestinal obstruction. Majority of intusussception in adults are secondary to a primary lesion which acts as a lead point. CT is the gold standard of diagnosing intusussception in adults and most of them require surgery. Herein we share our experience of managing adult intussusceptions in a tertiary referral university hospital

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ADULT INTUSSUSCEPTIONS- EXPERIENCE FROM A TERTIARY HOSPITAL, Sankar Subramanian, Jagan Balu, Sathiyavelavan Gopalan INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-12 | December-2019

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