Pneumoperitoneum in a preterm neonate usually indicates perforation of the intestine and is considered a surgical emergency. However, there are cases of pneumoperitoneum with no evidence of rupture of the intestine reported in the literature. We report a case of pneumoperitoneum with no intestinal perforation in a preterm neonate with respiratory distress syndrome who was on high frequency osci...

Jejunoileal atresia is one of the common causes of neonatal intestinal obstruction. Intestinal perforation with meconium peritonitis in the neonatal period, which carries a high mortality rate, is also common. The association of jejunal atresia with idiopathic ileal perforation is very rare.

Intestinal perforation is a surgeon’s nightmare that every colorectal surgeon has encountered once in a while, or at least a few times, during his or her career. For some, it is a dramatic victorious memory of a heroic surgeon saving a patient’s life after a struggle of several hours while for some it is something never to be remembered. Either way, an intestinal perforation is an unwanted gues...

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, the most common gastrointestinal emergency in neonates, typically affects the preterm infants and carries high mortality. Classic clinical trad consists of abdominal distension, bloody stools, and pneumatosis intestinalis. Occasionally, signs and symptoms may not be classic and a number of papers have highlighted the difficulty of relying on radiological feat...

Spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) are the reason of intestinal damage in preterm neonates with low and extremely low body weight. Etiology of SIP is still unknown. It has not been determined whether SIP is a separate disease entity or only benign form of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Surgical treatment includes peritoneal drainage, resection and pri...

Background: Typhoid fever remains a highly contagious and multi-systemic infection caused by salmonellae typhi, like other gastro-enteric infection, it poses higher risk of morbidity mortality during pregnancy as result the physiological changes associated with well concerns antibiotic safety in pregnancy. The occurrence typhoid perforation may be easily confused for causes acute abdomen pregna...

Intestinal disease in premature infants, especially spontaneous intestinal perforation and necrotizing enterocolitis, has been an intense focus of current and past research. The significant morbidity and mortality of these diseases creates a large impact in neonatal care and patient quality of life. In very low birth weight infants, factors influencing a systemic inflammatory response and/or su...

INTRODUCTION The recognition of neonatal intestinal perforation relies on identification of free gas in the peritoneum on plain abdominal radiographs and the associated clinical signs. The neonatal bowel takes several hours to fill with gas, potentially obscuring one of the radiological signs of bowel perforation in the neonate. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a male, Caucasian neon...