Gastric perforation: An unusual cause of ascites in a newborn baby

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1085-1087

  Abdelbasit, Omer B ^a,b   Shaheed, Meeralebbae M ^a   Al Omari, Mohammad S ^a   Abomelha, Abdullah M ^a   Babiker, Mirghani O ^a  

^a SECURITY FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Departments of Pediatric Surgery   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Gastric perforation; Newborn baby; Unusual ascites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE; STOMACH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASCITES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, PREMATURE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STOMACH DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0442297792     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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