Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)

Intussusception in infants and children represents a relatively usual challenge for the pediatric surgeon. However, the incidence of lymphoma of the small intestine or inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, acting as a lead point for invagination, are rather rare. We hereby present two cases of seconda...

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Autores principales: Dimitrios, Godosis, Vasileios, Mouravas, Vassilis, Lambropoulos, Chrysostomos, Kepertis, Kleanthis, Anastasiadis, Ioannis, Spyridakis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598091
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.277.26829
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Sumario:Intussusception in infants and children represents a relatively usual challenge for the pediatric surgeon. However, the incidence of lymphoma of the small intestine or inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, acting as a lead point for invagination, are rather rare. We hereby present two cases of secondary intussusception, with the aforementioned lead points.

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