What's going on guys and welcome to episode 51 of the Physician

System boards.com podcast and today's episode is going to be on inter-sception

now intersception can be a pretty difficult diagnosis to make clinically, but come the boards, it's a pretty easy diagnosis to make, right?

They're going to give you exactly what you need to know to make the diagnosis. Now as far as clinical practice goes,

it's a little bit more difficult because of the vague symptoms that are presented to you by the child.

And the child is usually going to be under one years of age, so they can't really express how they feel.

Now into seception, what that is is the

intestine itself will slide or invaginate into another part of the intestine.

Right? So this is also called telescoping and the most common location is going to be

the IlioCCO region. So just imagine part of the intestine sliding into the other part of the

intestine similar to what a telescope would do as you slide in and out, right?

That's what into-sception is. Now ultimately

this could lead to bowel obstruction which could lead to gangrene and

perforation. So it's a pretty you know it's a diagnosis that you need to make as soon as possible.

Now usually you're going to see this in patients over five months of age and under one year of

age. However it can definitely happen in older children and in adults,

however, it's a lot more rare. So really what you're looking for is a child under one

over five months of age, especially for the boards. Now why this happens the ideology is really not known

especially in the younger children under one it's really not known why it happens.

The older the child gets so that you know you know, over three years of age, a lot of times there's something called the lead point, which is a mass.

It could be a tumor, it could be a polyp, assist, what have you, and that in itself can lead to the insusception.

But for the most part, the ideology is unknown.

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