The acute abdomen in the newborn

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-197

  de la Hunt, M N ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergencies; Infant; Intestinal obstruction; Newborn; Peritonitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ENEMA; INDOMETACIN; INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ANESTHESIST; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CARDIOLOGIST; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DUODENUM ATRESIA; DYSPLASIA; ENTEROPATHY; GASTROSCHISIS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE DUPLICATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MECONIUM ILEUS; MIDGUT; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN SURGERY; NURSE; OBSTETRICS; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERITONITIS; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RESUSCITATION; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; STOMACH TUBE; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTESTINAL ATRESIA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PERITONITIS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 33646119659     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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