The use of the score for neonatal acute physiology-perinatal extension (SNAPPE II) in perforated necrotizing enterocolitis: could it guide therapy in newborns less than 1500 g?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1170-1174

  Bonnard, Arnaud ^a,b   Zamakhshary, Mohammed ^a,c   Ein, Sigmund ^a   Moore, Asdeen ^a   Kim, Peter C W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Necrotizing enterocolitis; Perforation; SNAPPE score

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRAIN; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORE FOR NEONATAL ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY PERINATAL EXTENSION SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44949219422     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.02.051     Document Type: Article

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