[Invagination ileus--stages and progress of treatment]

Result from the historic development of the treatment of the intussusception was given an epidemiologic study of the different kinds of possible treatment of infantile intussusception from 1963 to 1988 including 246 affected children. Correlations are established between the duration of anamnesis, the general condition, form of intussusception and possible therapies. Besides indications and contraindications are recommended for hydrostatic and operative evagination as well as for treatment by resection. Furthermore, some conservative methods of treatment are briefly introduced, such as hydrostatic reduction by means of barium enema under x-ray control or by means of visotrast under ultrasonic visualisation, as well as pneumatic reduction.