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Necrotizing enterocolitis in infants: clinical outcome and influence on growth and neurodevelopment.

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2004

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Ting‐Chi Yeh, Jui‐Hsing Chang, Hsin‐An Kao, Chyong-Hsin Hsu, Han‐Yang Hung, Chun-Chih Peng
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Abstract

Intestinal stricture was the most common gastrointestinal complication in this series of infants with NEC. Besides the bowel sequelae, VLBW infants who survive NEC are at risk for impairment of growth and neurodevelopment.