Rectal Intussusception: Characterization of Symptomatology

Abstract

Although certain symptoms are predictive of the finding of rectal intussusception, there is a wide overlap with symptoms of rectocele, another common cause of evacuatory dysfunction. Furthermore, the observation that "obstruction to evacuation" made on proctography had no impact on the incidence of evacuatory symptoms suggests that beyond simply demonstrating the presence of an intussusception, analysis of proctography and subclassifying intussusception morphology seems of little clinical significance, and selection for surgical intervention on the basis of proctographic findings may be illogical.