Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?

Chronic intussusception is a relatively uncommon disease most commonly observed in older children. Waugh's syndrome represents a rare entity characterized by intestinal malrotation and acute intussusception. We report a very unusual case of intestinal malrotation associated with chronic intussu...

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Autores principales: Zavras, Nick, Tsilikas, Konstantinos, Vaos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27777808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5638451
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author Zavras, Nick
Tsilikas, Konstantinos
Vaos, George
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description Chronic intussusception is a relatively uncommon disease most commonly observed in older children. Waugh's syndrome represents a rare entity characterized by intestinal malrotation and acute intussusception. We report a very unusual case of intestinal malrotation associated with chronic intussusception. Clinical presentation, radiological findings, and managing of this association are discussed in the light of the available literature.
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spelling pubmed-50619432016-10-24 Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome? Zavras, Nick Tsilikas, Konstantinos Vaos, George Case Rep Surg Case Report Chronic intussusception is a relatively uncommon disease most commonly observed in older children. Waugh's syndrome represents a rare entity characterized by intestinal malrotation and acute intussusception. We report a very unusual case of intestinal malrotation associated with chronic intussusception. Clinical presentation, radiological findings, and managing of this association are discussed in the light of the available literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5061943/ /pubmed/27777808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5638451 Text en Copyright © 2016 Nick Zavras et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title_full Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title_fullStr Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title_short Chronic Intussusception Associated with Malrotation in a Child: A Variation of Waugh's Syndrome?
title_sort chronic intussusception associated with malrotation in a child: a variation of waugh's syndrome?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27777808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5638451
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