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Most common cause of bowel obstruction from 6 months - 3 years.
Usually starts at the ileocolic junction.
Clinically:
1) Dance's sign - retraction of the right iliac fossa
2) sausage shaped swelling on palpation
Management:
1)A barium contrast enema
confirms diagnosis
and successfully reduces it.
Success rate = 80%.
10% recur in 24 hours.
2)Surgical Reduction/Resection
In adults
intussusception is often associated with neoplasm."