title: Lipomyelomeningocele associated with necrotizing enterocolitis in a term neonate.
abstract: A six-day-old full-term female infant with lipomyelomeningocele, confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging, suffered from necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) when he was four-day-old. The clinical presentations were bloody stool and abdominal distension. A plain abdominal film demonstrated pneumatosis intestinalis and air in the portal vein. An emergent laparotomy was performed and revealed diffuse gangrenous change of both small and large bowels. A jejunostomy was done and strong antibiotics were given, but the baby died two days after the operation. In this paper report, the relation between lipomyelomeningocele and NEC is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, R.O.C.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Tsou Yau
mesh_terms: D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008067:Lipoma / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography