RT Journal
A1 LINDBERG G, MORALES O
T1 TReatment of acute intussusception by an enema of roentgenologic contrast medium
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1949
FD March 1
VO 77
IS 3
SP 303
OP 309
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040313002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040313002
AB THE CONSERVATIVE treatment of intussusception in children has been a subject of interest for many years in the Scandinavian countries. Hirschsprung, Wichmann, Kock and Oerum and Monrad made important contributions to the treatment of this condition. It was from Sweden that the first report of the use of an enema of roentgenologic contrast medium in the treatment of intussusception in children was received. Olsson and Pallin1 recorded the first successful results of such therapy in 1927, and similar reports came almost simultaneously from Retan in America and Pouliquen and his associates in France.Whereas previous therapy had been almost exclusively surgical, these reports of the use of roentgenologic contrast medium, not only in diagnosis but also as therapy, reawakened interest in the conservative treatment. The method has gained much ground, and in this connection reference to Nyborg's2 detailed study of the subject (1943) is of value.It appears