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Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Author(s) -

S. Lahmiti,

Abdelmounaim Aboussad

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2011.69

Subject(s) - necrotizing enterocolitis , medicine , gastrointestinal disease , neonatal intensive care unit , enterocolitis , disease , gastrointestinal disorder , pediatrics , gastroenterology , intensive care medicine

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a gastrointestinal disease that mostly affects premature infants. It involves infection and inflammation that causes destruction of the bowel. Although it affects only 1 in 2,000 to 4,000 births, or between 1 and 5% of neonatal intensive care unit admissions, NEC is the most common and serious gastrointestinal disorder among hospitalized preterm infants. We present a very representative abdominal X-ray of this disease.

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