A rare case of neonatal ileo-cecal valve stenosis due to covered iliac perforation

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-72

  Messina, Mario ^a   Ferrucci, Elisabetta ^b   Garzi, Alfredo ^b   Meucci, Daniela ^b   Buonocore, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Covered perforation; Ileal perforation; Ileo cecal valve stenosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM DISEASE; LAPAROTOMY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; ILEOCECAL VALVE; ILEUM; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION;

EID: 0037236513     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067016     Document Type: Article

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