TY - JOUR T1 - MEconium ileus AU - Adamson EW, Hild JR Y1 - 1939/06/03 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1939.62800220005010d JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 2275 EP - 2275 VL - 112 IS - 22 N2 - 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 CASEĀ  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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.62800220005010d UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.62800220005010d ER -