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Blanco, F.C., Cuffari, C., Chahine, A.A., King, L., Wilkes, G., Nazer, H., Windle, M.L., Li, B.U.K. and Young, M.G. Intussusception. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/930708-overview

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• TITLE: Addressing Challenges in the Management of Paediatric Intussusceptions in the District Hospital

  AUTHORS: Senyo Gudugbe, Jonathan Cuthbert Balea Dakubo, Samuel Essoun

  KEYWORDS: Intestinal Obstruction, Pneumatic Reduction, Developing Country, Paediatric Surgery

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Pediatrics, Vol.4 No.4, November 13, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Intussusception is the leading cause of intestinal obstruction in children and its management can be challenging especially in centres with inadequate resources where this problem becomes more daunting. Nineteen cases of intussusception in the paediatric age group which were managed by medical officers in a district Hospital in Ghana are discussed. The outcomes of cases treated by open surgery, and those managed by pneumatic reduction were studied. We highlight the use of an improvised set up used in achieving pneumatic reduction thereby obviating operative reduction.