RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sonographic detection of the lead point in intussusception.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 529
OP 530
DO 10.1136/adc.67.4.529
VO 67
IS 4
A1 M D Stringer
A1 S N Capps
A1 S M Pablot
YR 1992
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/67/4/529.abstract
AB Using ultrasonography, a caecal duplication cyst was identified as the pathological lead point in a 6 year old boy with acute intussusception. The patient underwent definitive surgery rather than inappropriate treatment by attempted radiological reduction. Various pathological lead points in intussusception can now be defined by ultrasound.