Intussusception in a Premature Neonate: A Rare Often Misdiagnosed Cause of Intestinal Obstruction
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Intussusception in a Premature Neonate: A Rare Often Misdiagnosed Cause of Intestinal Obstruction
Intestinal obstruction in neonatal period is an emergency caused by many surgical causes. An extremely rare surgical cause in this group of age is intussusception which can be easily confused with other surgical entities. In several reports, a significant number of the infants who were included in the study population were believed to have necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). We present a rare caus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2009/607989