Intussusception: ability of fluoroscopic images obtained during air enemas to depict lead points and other abnormalities.

Purpose: To evaluate the ability of fluoroscopic images obtained during air enemas to depict or exclude lead points of intussusceptions and other abnormalities that require surgical treatment in the absence of intussusception.

Materials And Methods: The clinical, radiologic, surgical, and pathologic findings were reviewed in 14 patients with lead points or other lesions.

Results: Fluoroscopic images failed to depict a lead point in 10 patients.

Metastatic choriocarcinoma in an infant: imaging appearance.

Metastatic choriocarcinoma is unusual in infancy and considered to be due to metastases from the placenta. Only fifteen cases have been previously reported. We present an unusual case of hepatic, pulmonary, and axillary lymph node metastases from choriocarcinoma in a 3-month-old female.