Pattern, outcome and challenges of neonatal surgical cases in a tertiary teaching hospital

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 226-230

  Ugwu, Rosemary O ^a   Okoro, Philemon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormality; neonate; outcome; surgical conditions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIGERIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84888335035     PISSN: 01896725     EISSN: 09745998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0189-6725.120886     Document Type: Article

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