ABSTRACT: Introduction: Acute intestinal intussusception is a medical-surgical emergency. It is the main etiology of intestinal obstructions in infants. Its diagnosis is essentially clinical in its ...

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The rotavirus vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity or lifetime immunity, unlike the measles vaccine and several other childhood immunizations. However, by preventing primary infections in ...

MADURAI: A veterinary team from the animal husbandry department in Madurai successfully treated a five-month-old puppy with intestinal intussusception after a three-hour surgery. Doctors said this was ...

RECOGNIZED cases of jejunogastric intussusception are relatively infrequent, and those proved at operation or autopsy are even more unusual. We have been able to find 98 articles on the subject, of ...

Viral infections trigger more cases of intussusception, the common cause of bowel blockages in young children, than previously thought, according to a new study. Viral infections trigger more cases of ...

Viral infections trigger more cases of intussusception, the common cause of bowel blockages in young children, than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, led by Murdoch ...

Adult intussusception is much rarer than pediatric intussusception and usually occurs secondary to a pathological lead point, most frequently neoplasm. Terminal ileum lipomas are an infrequent cause ...

Benjamin M. Yeh, MD, is a Professor in the Abdominal Imaging Section in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his medical degree from Duke University ...

1 Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, USA. 2 Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. 3 Division of Hematopathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, ...