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Neonatal Intussusception Associated with Neonatal Small Left Colon Syndrome

Sections of Neonatology, Surgery, and Radiology, The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri

J. Patrick Murphy, MD

Thomas M. Holder, MD

Arlene E. Segal, MD

A newborn infant with intestinal obstruction resulting from intussusception associated with neonatal small left colon syndrome is described. Differences between neonatal and infantile intussusception are detailed. Chronic loose intussusception in utero is proposed as one cause of the neonatal small left colon syndrome. Consideration should be given to doing a rectal biopsy and a sweat chloride test to differentiate neonatal small left colon syndrome from Hirschsprung's disease and cystic fibrosis, respectively, when the clinical diagnosis is not readily apparent.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 26, No. 4, 191-193 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288702600409


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