Affiliation:
1. Radiology Department,College of Medicine and Health Sciences,Afe Babalola University,Ado-Ekiti
2. ENT Department,College of Medicine and Health Sciences,Afe Babalola University,Ado-Ekit
3. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti
4. Surgery Department,College of Medicine and Health Sciences,Afe Babalola University,Ado-Ekiti
5. Community Medicine Department,College of Medicine and Health Sciences,Afe Babalola University,Ado-Ekiti
Abstract
A case of a 12yr old female student who presented with a week old history of abdominal pain, vomiting, and bloodstained stool and was diagnosed by ultrasonography and barium enema to have intussusception (ileocolo colic variety).
Idiopathic cause, a diagnosis of exclusion was made at surgery. She was managed successfully and subsequently
followed up at the clinic.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Applied Psychology,Religious studies,Social Psychology,Animal Science and Zoology,Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Pathology and Forensic Medicine,Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Immunology and Microbiology,Molecular Biology,Immunology and Allergy,Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Immunology and Microbiology,General Medicine,Immunology and Allergy,Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Medicine,Microbiology,Parasitology,Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),Molecular Biology,Immunology,Immunology and Allergy,General Medicine,General Medicine,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
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