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Acute and Subacute Intestinal Obstructions

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In children, bowel obstruction can be due to a variety of congenital and acquired causes that slightly differs from causes of bowel obstruction in fetuses and neonates (see also Chaps. 5 and 7). In infants and adolescents, the clinical signs of intestinal obstruction are similar to those seen in adults, such as abdominal pain, distension, and vomiting. The vomiting is bile stained when the obstruction occurs below the ampulla of Vater and clears when the obstruction is supra-ampullary (Fig. 9.1). Other clinical signs that may help elucidate the cause of intestinal obstructions are summarized in Table 9.1. In most cases, intestinal obstruction in a child requires imaging to determine its cause, location, and extent [1].

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Blondiaux, E., Mar, W. (2018). Acute and Subacute Intestinal Obstructions. In: E. Avni, F., Petit, P. (eds) Imaging Acute Abdomen in Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63700-6_9

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