Recurrent Intussusception in Adolescence: A Rare Entity: Invaginação Recorrente na Adolescência: Uma Entidade Rara

Cátia Vilas Boas Leitão; Joana Tenente; Andreia Ribeiro; Isabel Pinto Pais

doi:10.29315/gm.v7i1.291

Cátia Vilas Boas Leitão - Corresponding Author

Resident of Pediatrics Department, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

Rua Francisco Sá Carneiro, s/n, 4400-129 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1470-3148

Joana Tenente

Resident of Pediatrics Department, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

Andreia Ribeiro

Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Pediatrics Department, Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Portugal.

Isabel Pinto Pais

Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Pediatrics Department, Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Portugal.

Abstract

A healthy 16-year-old male presented to the emergency department with vomiting and pain in the right iliac fossa for the previous 12 hours, with no other symptoms.

Keywords: Adolescent; Intussusception

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Leitão CVB, Tenente J, Ribeiro A, Pinto Pais I. Recurrent Intussusception in Adolescence: A Rare Entity: Invaginação Recorrente na Adolescência: Uma Entidade Rara. Gaz Med [Internet]. 2020 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 Nov. 29];7(1). Available from: http://gazetamedica.gazetamedica.pt/index.php/gazeta/article/view/291

Issue

NUMBER 1 · VOLUME 7 · JANUARY/MARCH 2020

Section

MEDICAL IMAGES