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Untypical symptoms for rather uncommon surgical entities: report of two rare cases of secondary intussusception in children (a case report)


Godosis Dimitrios
Mouravas Vasileios
Lambropoulos Vassilis
Kepertis Chrysostomos
Anastasiadis Kleanthis
Spyridakis Ioannis

Abstract

Intussusception in infants and children represents a relatively usual challenge for the pediatric surgeon. However, the incidence of lymphoma of the small intestine or inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, acting as a lead point for invagination, are rather rare. We hereby present two cases of secondary intussusception, with the aforementioned lead points.


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