Adopt a wait-and-see attitude for patent processus vaginalis in neonates

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1371-1373

  Toki, Akira ^a   Watanabe, Yasuhiro ^b   Sasaki, Kiyoshi ^b   Tani, Morimichi ^b   Ogura, Kaoru ^b   Wang, Zhong Qiu ^b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Inguinal hernia; Low birth weight neonate; Patent process vaginalis; Premature neonate; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN; PATENT PROCESSUS VAGINALIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0141565579     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(03)00398-1     Document Type: Article

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