Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation in a Very Low Birth Weight Infant: Successful Management by Peritoneal Needle Suction

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care and Neonatal Medicine, Teaching Hospital of Monastir, University of Monastir - Tunisia.
² Department of Paediatric Surgery, Teaching Hospital of Monastir, University of Monastir - Tunisia.

Fatma-Zohra Chioukh et al. J Neonatal Surg. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 3;5(3):39.

doi: 10.21699/jns.v5i3.331. eCollection 2016 Jul-Sep.

¹ Department of Intensive Care and Neonatal Medicine, Teaching Hospital of Monastir, University of Monastir - Tunisia.
² Department of Paediatric Surgery, Teaching Hospital of Monastir, University of Monastir - Tunisia.

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Management of neonatal spontaneous intestinal perforation by peritoneal needle aspiration.
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