Understanding Intestinal Vulnerability to Perforation in the Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant
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Gastric perforation in an extremely low birth weight infant recovered with percutaneous peritoneal drainage.
Neonatal gastric perforation is an uncommon but life-threatening condition, which is mainly encountered in premature infants. Primary surgical repair is the principal mode of the treatment. Gastric perforation in neonates improving with percutaneous peritoneal drainage alone has not been described previously. Therefore, an extremely low birth weight infant is presented herein in order to emphas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e31818c7920