Depth of Bacterial Invasion in Resected Intestinal Tissue Predicts Mortality in Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis

OBJECTIVE: Up to a third of all infants who develop necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) require surgical resection of necrotic bowel. We hypothesized that the histopathological findings in surgically-resected bowel can predict the clinical outcome of these infants. STUDY DESIGN: We reviewed the medical...

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Published in:J Perinatol
Main Authors: Remon, Juan I., Amin, Sachin C., Mehendale, Sangeeta R., Rao, Rakesh, Luciano, Angel A., Garzon, Steven A., Maheshwari, Akhil
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4552605/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25950918
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jp.2015.51
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