RESUMO
From January 1997 to December 1986, 244 episodes of intussusception in 233 patients were treated in Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait. Nineteen patients [7.9%] had a definite pathologic lesion [a " leading point"]. Nine of these 19 patients [47.3%] were over 2 years old as compared to only 16 of 244 [6.6%] in the whole series. No particular leading point occurred more frequently than any other. Fifteen of these leading point were in the small gut and only four in the large gut. Preoperative therapeutic barium enema was attempted and failed in six cases. All 19 patients were operated on. There were 11 ileocolic, four ileoileal, and four colocolic intussusceptions. The postoperative complications were high, and likewise the length of hospitalization. No recurrent intussusception had a leading point