Necrotizing enterocolitis

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-124

  Henry, Marion C W ^a   Moss, R Lawrence ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intestinal perforation; Neurodevelopmental outcomes; Peritoneal drainage; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGININE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLUTAMINE; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; INFUSION FLUID; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MILK; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS;

EID: 67650726890     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.60.050207.092824     Document Type: Review

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