Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation

Intussusception in a premature baby is a rare condition. We report a male preterm infant, who developed abdominal distension and abdominal wall erythema. He was operated with suspicion of NEC but an ileo-ileal intussusception and intestinal perforation were encountered at operation.

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Autores principales: Tepmalai, Kanokkan, Naowapan, Thanyaluck, Singhavejsakul, Jesda, Laohapensang, Mongkol, Khorana, Jiraporn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5224746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083499
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v6i1.407
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author Tepmalai, Kanokkan
Naowapan, Thanyaluck
Singhavejsakul, Jesda
Laohapensang, Mongkol
Khorana, Jiraporn
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description Intussusception in a premature baby is a rare condition. We report a male preterm infant, who developed abdominal distension and abdominal wall erythema. He was operated with suspicion of NEC but an ileo-ileal intussusception and intestinal perforation were encountered at operation.
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spelling pubmed-52247462017-01-12 Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation Tepmalai, Kanokkan Naowapan, Thanyaluck Singhavejsakul, Jesda Laohapensang, Mongkol Khorana, Jiraporn J Neonatal Surg Case Report Intussusception in a premature baby is a rare condition. We report a male preterm infant, who developed abdominal distension and abdominal wall erythema. He was operated with suspicion of NEC but an ileo-ileal intussusception and intestinal perforation were encountered at operation. EL-MED-Pub 2017-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5224746/ /pubmed/28083499 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v6i1.407 Text en Copyright: © 2017 JNS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tepmalai, Kanokkan
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Singhavejsakul, Jesda
Laohapensang, Mongkol
Khorana, Jiraporn
Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title_full Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title_fullStr Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title_full_unstemmed Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title_short Intussusception in Premature Baby: Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction and Perforation
title_sort intussusception in premature baby: unusual cause of bowel obstruction and perforation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5224746/
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