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The questiion should read "bowel intussusception".

The small bowel can be intussuscepted, meaning folded like a sleeve, something like what you do to your socks when putting them away.

Distinguish symptoms from signs.

The classic symptom is abdominal pain, often intermittent. In young children, where it is seen most often, it presents as colicky fits that disappear as quickly as they appear.

The whole gamut of clinical signs accompanying small bowel obsruction can be present, from vomiting, to borborygm and eventual aperistalsis, failing to pass gas, etc.

In addition, the signs associated with the underlying cause can be present, more often in the adult, because the cause in adult's is more likely to be a mass causing a lead point effect. Think tumor.

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The questiion should read "bowel intussusception".

The small bowel can be intussuscepted, meaning folded like a sleeve, something like what you do to your socks when putting them away.

Distinguish symptoms from signs.

The classic symptom is abdominal pain, often intermittent. In young children, where it is seen most often, it presents as colicky fits that disappear as quickly as they appear.

The whole gamut of clinical signs accompanying small bowel obsruction can be present, from vomiting, to borborygm and eventual aperistalsis, failing to pass gas, etc.

In addition, the signs associated with the underlying cause can be present, more often in the adult, because the cause in adult's is more likely to be a mass causing a lead point effect. Think tumor.

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