Challenges of management and outcome of neonatal surgery in Africa: a systematic review

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 291-299

  Ekenze, Sebastian O ^a   Ajuzieogu, Obinna V ^a   Nwomeh, Benedict C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Challenges; Congenital anomalies; Developing countries; Neonatal surgery; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AFRICA; AFRICAN; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; BOTSWANA; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; COTE D'IVOIRE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ETHIOPIA; GASTROSCHISIS; GHANA; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; KENYA; MALI; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SURGERY; NIGERIA; OMPHALOCELE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TANZANIA; TREND STUDY; TUNISIA; ZAMBIA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

AFRICA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84958741848     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-016-3861-x     Document Type: Article

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