Pattern and factors affecting management outcome of neonatal emergency surgery in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Surgical Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 71-75

  Sowande, Oludayo A ^a   Ogundoyin, Olakayode O ^a   Adejuyigbe, Olusanya ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Emergency surgery; Neonatal; Nigerian children; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN SURGERY; NIGERIA; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVOR; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

EID: 34247584993     PISSN: 17441625     EISSN: 17441633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-1633.2007.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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