Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Abstract
Abstract Sir.—The article "Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis in the Absence of Pneumatosis Intestinalis" by Kliegman and Fanaroff (Journal 1982;136: 618-620) draws attention to the important observation that neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is not always associated with radiologic evidence of intramural intestinal gas (pneumatosis intestinalis). Nineteen of their 136 patients with confirmed NEC did not have pneumatosis intestinalis; five patients had radiologic...