Intestinal cystic duplication in infants and the etiology of intussusception
Kasis, A.; Sabo, E.; Mogilner, J.G.; Boss, J.
Harefuah 125(10): 350
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-7768 PMID: 8253402 Document Number: 414487
2 infants, 3 months old and 8 months, respectively, with restlessness and vomiting were each found to have ileocolic intussusception with barium filling defects. Laparotomy disclosed in each a dome-shaped structure, 2 cm and 0.6 cm in greatest diameter, respectively, on the antimesenteric side of the ileal wall. Histological examination showed cystic duplication of the ileum. It is suggested that manual reduction generally fails when cystic duplication is an etiological factor, and surgery is then mandatory.