Necrotizing enterocolitis occurring in an infant three months of age.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is usually described as occurring in newborn premature of low-birth-weight infants who have been stressed by hypoxia, exchange transfusion, or severe sepsis. It occasionally occurs in full term neonates. The age of onset is between day 1 and day 35. This communication describes the occurrence and course of NEC in a 3 mo old infant with a short intestine.
D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005774:Gastrostomy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis