GASTROINTESTINAL PERFORATIONS IN INFANCY
| Autor: | Arthur S. Tucker, Robert J. Izant, Leslie Soine |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Colon medicine.medical_treatment Perforation (oil well) Stomach Diseases Enema Infant Premature Diseases Infant Newborn Diseases Colonic Diseases medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Duodenal Diseases Esophagus Enterocolitis Pseudomembranous Duodenal Perforation Barium enema Esophageal Perforation Rupture Spontaneous business.industry Stomach Infant Newborn Infant General Medicine Surgery Radiography medicine.anatomical_structure Intestinal Perforation Duodenum Female business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 123:755-763 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.123.4.755 |
| Popis: | Over a 22 year period, 53 infants under 1 year of age suffered gastrointestinal perforations. Seventy-two per cent of these took place during the first week of life.Predisposing factors have been found to range widely through the following general categories: metabolic, genetic, inflammatory, mechanical, and unexplained. Twentytwo of the babies were born prematurely.Sixteen perforations were iatrogenic. Of these, 11 followed a variety of surgical procedures, 1 developed subsequent to transfusion, and 4 resulted during or after barium enema examinations.The anatomic distribution showed the stomach, the small intestine, and the colon each accounting for between 23 and 30 per cent of the total. Perforations of esophagus and duodenum were much less frequent, 3 each. In 5 patients a site of perforation was not identified.Twenty-six of the patients survived— an incidence of 49 per cent. The highest survival was in stomach perforations, 9 out of 12 (75 per cent). None of the 3 infants with duodenal perforation l... |
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