Surgical management of extremely low birth weight infants with neonatal bowel perforation: A single-center experience and a review of the literature

Neonatology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 285-292

  Eicher, Carmen ^a   Seitz, Guido ^a   Bevot, Andrea ^a   Moll, Monika ^a   Goelz, Rangmar ^a   Arand, Joerg ^a   Poets, Christian ^a   Fuchs, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight infants; Focal intestinal perforation; Laparotomy; Mortality; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neurodevelopmental outcome; Peritoneal drainage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENTEROSTOMY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASTOMAL HERNIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

FISTULA;

EID: 84856178306     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335325     Document Type: Article

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