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INTUSSUSCEPTION IN THE ADULT
Author(s) -
COLEMAN M. J.,
HUGH T. B.,
May R. E.,
JENSEN M. J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05933.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intussusception (medical disorder) , lesion , general surgery , surgery , large intestine , small intestine , radiology
Intussusception in the adult is an uncommon cause of intestinal obstruction. Seventeen cases were seen at two teaching hospitals over a twenty‐year period. A local causative lesion was preent in all cases; a malignant tumour was present in two out of seven intussusceptions arising in the small intestine and in seven out of ten arising in the large intestine. More than half the cases had a protracted clinical course prior to diagnosis.