Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion in Infancy and Childhood

ALTHOUGH patients with mesenteric vascular occlusions are being encountered and operated upon more frequently, this disease is a rare entity in the pediatric age group. The first case was reported by Tiedemann1 in an adult in 1843. Four years later Virchow2 described the pathology of the disease in detail. The first recorded mesenteric vascular occlusion in childhood was reported in a five-year-old girl by Taylor3 in 1881. Trotter's4 1913 monograph on this subject reviewed 308 patients, 5 of whom were children, the youngest in his series being four years old. Frank,5 in 1923, described 3 children, eight, ten and twelve . . .