Intussusception as Rare Presenting Sign of Pediatric Celiac Disease

Abstract

Intussusception is the most common cause of gastrointestinal obstruction in children and typically presents with acute abdominal pain. Intussusception usually occurs in children under the age of 3 in the ileocecal region. Over the past 5 years, multiple patients at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have been diagnosed with both intussusception and biopsy‐confirmed celiac disease (CD). Intussusception may be a presenting sign of pediatric CD and should raise clinical suspicion for celiac screening, especially if it is a small bowel‐small bowel intussusception that occurs after the age of 3 in a malnourished patient.