Does abdominal sonography provide additional information over abdominal plain radiography for diagnosis of necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates?

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 321-327

  Dilli, Dilek ^a,b   Suna Oguz S ^a   Erol, Reyhan ^a   Özkan Ulu, Hülya ^a   DumanlI, Hüseyin ^a   Dilmen, Uǧur ^a  

^a Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity and Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Yenidoǧan Kliniǧi ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abdominal sonography; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79954445011     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-010-2737-8     Document Type: Article

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