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
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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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author Dimitrios, Godosis
Vasileios, Mouravas
Vassilis, Lambropoulos
Chrysostomos, Kepertis
Kleanthis, Anastasiadis
Ioannis, Spyridakis
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Vasileios, Mouravas
Vassilis, Lambropoulos
Chrysostomos, Kepertis
Kleanthis, Anastasiadis
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description 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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spelling pubmed-78642802021-02-16 Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report) Dimitrios, Godosis Vasileios, Mouravas Vassilis, Lambropoulos Chrysostomos, Kepertis Kleanthis, Anastasiadis Ioannis, Spyridakis Pan Afr Med J 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 secondary intussusception, with the aforementioned lead points. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7864280/ /pubmed/33598091 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.277.26829 Text en Copyright: Godosis Dimitrios et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dimitrios, Godosis
Vasileios, Mouravas
Vassilis, Lambropoulos
Chrysostomos, Kepertis
Kleanthis, Anastasiadis
Ioannis, Spyridakis
Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title_full Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title_fullStr Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title_full_unstemmed Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title_short Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
title_sort untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)
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url 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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