Association of meteorological factors with pediatric intussusception in subtropical china: a 5-year analysis.

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine whether climate factors correlate with variations in the rate of pediatric intussusception cases presenting to the Children's Hospital in Suzhou, China. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The hospital records of 5,994 pediatric cases of intussusception who had...

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Main Authors: Wan-liang Guo, Shu-feng Zhang, Jin-en Li, Jian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3938762?pdf=render