Inter-observer reliability of radiological signs of necrotising enterocolitis in a population of high-risk newborns

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-87

  Di Napoli, Anteo ^a   Di Lallo, Domenico ^a   Perucci, Carlo A ^b   Schifano, Patrizia ^b   Orzalesi, Marcello ^c   Franco, Francesco ^a   De Carolis, Maria Pia ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b Local Health Authority RME   (Italy)

^c BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE WALL; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 1042276774     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2003.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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