RT Journal
A1 Adamson EW, Hild JR
T1 MEconium ileus
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 3
VO 112
IS 22
SP 2275
OP 2275
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.62800220005010d
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.62800220005010d
AB In 1919 a case of intestinal obstruction in a newborn infant, caused by inspissated meconium, was described by Bullowa and Brennan.1 Hughes2 described a similar case in 1922. Since then, others have described the condition; Dodd3 in 1936 reported the twenty-second case and gave a summary of the cases previously described. In six cases, including her own, necropsies revealed pathologic changes in the liver or pancreas, affecting the secretion of bile or pancreatic juice. Lack of either of these secretions was thought to be the causative factor.3 The terms "meconium ileitis" and "meconium ileus" are both used as descriptive of the condition. The latter seems more appropriate.REPORT OF CASE 
    The case here reported is one of meconium ileus and, in addition, presented an ileocolic intussusception that undoubtedly had existed before birth:An infant girl was the third living child born to a healthy mother by