This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (26)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Three Hundred Eighty-Two Consecutive Cases

DANIEL M. HAYS, M.D.; FRED C. GELLER, M.D.; WILLIAM J. NORRIS, M.D.; WILLIAM H. SNYDER, Jr., M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1960;80(5):788-805.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Introduction

Among patients admitted to a pediatric hospital with intussusception all degrees of severity of this disease are seen, from children with unexplained abdominal pain of short duration, to moribund infants who die before effective therapy can be instituted. Current reports have assessed the effectiveness of barium enema reduction in intussusception.^{5,15,21,24,30} Other recent articles attest to the fact that intestinal resection may be performed in cases of irreducible or infarcted intussusception with a steadily decreasing mortality.^2,3,17,23 These two subjects seem pertinent to cases falling at the two extremes in the spectrum of disease severity; i.e., hydrostatic pressure reduction is applicable in the early, uncomplicated cases of intussusception, while resection becomes necessary in neglected or unusually malignant ones. The present study attempts to relate these currently prominent aspects of this disease to the general clinical problem of intussusception as seen in a pediatric center.

A summary of the experience . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the University of Southern California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles Childrens Hospital, Surgical Service.; Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (Dr. Hays); Clinical Professor of Surgery (Dr. Norris), University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine (Dr. Snyder).

Footnotes
Read at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 19, 1959.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?