title: [The acute abdomen in the neonatal period].
abstract: Over a period of 22 years 91 cases of perforation or rupture of the intestinal tract were observed. Necrotising enterocolitis was most frequent (45%) followed by ruptures of congenital atresias of the intestinal tract (32%). In the first 11 years the mortality rate was 50%, in the following second period 25%. Infant birth weight registered in the first period was over 3000 g in 26% of the babies, in the second period in 11.5%. Whereas no child weighing less then 1000 g was admitted to hospital in the first period, 14% of those admitted in the second period did.
authors.affiliation: Kinderchirurgische Abteilung, Univ. Heidelberg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Daum
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roth
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000151:congenital* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000151:congenital* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous
vernacular_title: Das akute Abdomen in der Neugeborenenperiode.