Surgically correctable congenital anomalies: Prospective analysis of management problems and outcome in a developing country

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-131

  Ekenze, S O ^a,b   Ikechukwu, R N ^a   Oparaocha, D C ^a  

^a FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANKYLOGLOSSIA; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEMATOMA; HERMAPHRODITISM; HERNIA; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; INTESTINE ATRESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; OMPHALOCELE; ORTHOPEDICS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS DISEASE; THYROGLOSSAL DUCT CYST; URETHRA MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIGERIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33645843916     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmi078     Document Type: Article

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