Intussusception is among the commonest emergencies in children requiring the attention of a pediatric surgeon. This condition in which one part of the bowel telescopes into another has been recognized since the 1600s and nonoperative measures of reducing the intussusception were the preferred mode of treatment till the early 1900s. Since then, surgical reduction became the treatment of choice and despite the high mortality associated with the operative method, it took almost 40 years to return to nonoperative methods of reduction. Today, these methods have been improved upon and are the standard of care for children with intussusception.
Intussusception occurs most commonly in infants between 15 and 19 months of age with only 10–25% of cases occurring after 2 years of age. Although 90% of intussusceptions occur in children between 3 months to 3 years of age, it has also been reported in utero, in neonates, and in adults.
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Ramachandran, P. (2009). Intussusception. In: Puri, P., Höllwarth, M. (eds) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69560-8_49
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