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The ins and outs of intussusception: history and management over the past fifty years

2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 38; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0022-3468(03)00080-0

1531-5037

Carl F. Davis, Amanda J. McCabe, P.A.M. Raine,

Intestinal Malrotation and Obstruction Disorders

Intestinal invagination or intussusception (intus—within; suscipere—to receive) was first recorded by Paul Barbette of Amsterdam in 1674, who also suggested the possibility of operative reduction. 1 Barbette P. Oevres Chirurgiques et Anatomiques. Francois Miege, Geneva1674 Google Scholar This was not achieved until 1742, when Cornelius Velse successfully operated on an adult. 2 Velse C. De Mutuo Intestinorum Ingressu. Lugduni Batavorum, J Luzac. 1742 Google Scholar In 1793, John Hunter 3 Hunter J. On introsusception. Trans Soc Improvements Med Chir Knowledge. 1793; I: 103-118 Google Scholar outlined a classical case of what he called introsusception, describing poignantly: A large healthy looking child who, as far as appeared, had never been indisposed from his birth, was seized with a strong spasm, stretching himself out suddenly, without having had any symptoms of previous ailment. Either during the spasm, or immediately after it, he passed a very large loose stool, and after that discharged at intervals small quantities of mucous slime, covered over with little specks of recent fluid blood. … the patient’s strength became gradually weaker, although he continued to take the breast eagerly till within a few hours of his death, which happened just sixty hours after the first spasmodic attack.