You are what you eat: The diagnosis of recurrent intussusception in the emergency department
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Ileocolic intussusception is the most common abdominal emergency in early childhood and is usually idiopathic.1 Diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion as the pathognomonic triad of redcurrant jelly stools, palpable mass and intermittent abdominal pain is present in less than a quarter of cases.1 It should be differentiated from ileoileal intussusception, which is typically transient and self-limiting.2 However, if children present to the emergency department (ED) with acute, severe abdominal pain due to recurrent intussusception, an underlying diagnosis should be considered, as in the case reports detailed below.
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© 2021 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (Royal Australasian College of Physicians). This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: You are what you eat: The diagnosis of recurrent intussusception in the emergency department, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15750. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Samy, L; Snelling, PJ, You are what you eat: The diagnosis of recurrent intussusception in the emergency department, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health