Failure to pass meconium: Diagnosing neonatal intestinal obstruction

American Family Physician

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2043-2050

  Loening Baucke, Vera ^a   Kimura, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ILEUS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ABNORMALITIES; ANAL CANAL; COLONIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MECONIUM; RECTUM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0033231063     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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