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There are many paediatric patients who come with recurrent acute abdomen and on ultrasound you find non-obstructive intussuception of small bowel with multiple enlarged mesenteric lymphnodes. Most of the time small bowel intussuception spontaneously rduces and recurs while doing ultrasound. How one should manage these patients?
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Enlarged lymph nodes in the intussusception are mainly found in patients with a current or recent history of gastroenteritis and decrease the overall hydrostatic reduction rate.
Ref: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2002 Feb;178(2):445-50.
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