Predictors of gangrenous necrotizing enterocolitis and extent of disease. Early laparotomy versus peritoneal drainage

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-452

  Roy, Anita ^a   Tayeb, Maen ^a   Khogeer, Suzie S ^a   Al Salem, Ahmed H ^a  

^a Maternity and Children's Hospital ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ERYTHEMA; GANGRENE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABDOMEN; DRAINAGE; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; GANGRENE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; LAPAROTOMY; PALPATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17844382932     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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