ACCIDENTAL PERFORATION OF THE COLON AND RECTUM IN NEWBORN INFANTS
| Autor: | Clatworthy Hw, Fonkalsrud Ew |
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| Rok vydání: | 1965 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Constipation medicine.medical_treatment Perforation (oil well) Iatrogenic Disease Intestinal Atresia Rectum Peritonitis Anal Canal Enema Megacolon Infant Newborn Diseases Anus Imperforate Colonic Diseases Accident Prevention Diagnosis medicine Humans business.industry Intestinal atresia Infant Newborn Infant General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Intestinal Perforation Accidental medicine.symptom Barium Sulfate business Intestinal Obstruction |
| Zdroj: | The New England journal of medicine. 272 |
| ISSN: | 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | PERFORATION of the gastrointestinal tract in the newborn infant is a major catastrophe that causes death in over three fourths of the babies, despite the availability of modern diagnostic and therapeutic technics in institutions designed to care for sick infants.1 We were therefore chagrined to find that 10 of the 76 intestinal perforations treated at the Columbus Children's Hospital during the past fifteen years were accidentally caused. Three of these infants died as a result of complications arising from the associated peritonitis. The major causes of the large-bowel perforations in our experience were the following: enemas given to constipated infants . . . |
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