• Pediatric radiology · Aug 2017

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    Intussusception: past, present and future.

    • Emily A Edwards, Nicholas Pigg, Jesse Courtier, Matthew A Zapala, John D MacKenzie, and Andrew S Phelps.
    • Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. emily.edwards@ucsf.edu.
    • Pediatr Radiol. 2017 Aug 1; 47 (9): 1101-1108.

    AbstractIntussusception is a common etiology of acute abdominal pain in children. Over the last 70 years, there have been significant changes in how we diagnose and treat intussusception, with a more recent focus on the role of ultrasound. In this article we discuss historical and current approaches to intussusception, with an emphasis on ultrasound as a diagnostic and therapeutic modality.

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