CHRONIC NON-STRANGULATING INCOMPLETELY OBSTRUCTING INTUSSUSCEPTION - WITH CASE-REPORT OF A 7-1 2 YEAR-OLD NIGERIAN BOY/

One case of chronic intussusception (ileo-ileo colic) is reported. A s even and a half year old male had presented with colicky abdominal pai n, vomiting, a palpable abdominal mass, infrequent passage of mucus or blood with stools and weight loss over a period of six weeks. There w as delay in diagnosis due to unusual presentation and a low index of s uspicion. The patient had been admitted to a peripheral general hospit al for four weeks where he was treated for amoebic dysentry without im provement, before his transfer to our hospital where the diagnostic pr oblem continued, until the paediatric surgical unit was called in.