Neonatal appendicitis: a new look at an old zebra

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Jancelewicz, Tim ^a   Kim, Grace ^b   Miniati, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neonatal appendicitis; Tracheoesophageal fistula

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; APGAR SCORE; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 52949126785     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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