title: Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
abstract: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a gastrointestinal disease that mostly affects premature infants. It involves infection and inflammation that causes destruction of the bowel. Although it affects only 1 in 2,000 to 4,000 births, or between 1 and 5% of neonatal intensive care unit admissions, NEC is the most common and serious gastrointestinal disorder among hospitalized preterm infants. We present a very representative abdominal X-ray of this disease.
authors: Neonatal Intensive Care Department, Mohammed VI University Hospital and Research Team for Childhood, Health and Development, Marrakech School of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco. lahmiti@gmail.com
authors: Saad
authors: S
authors: Lahmiti
authors: Abdelmounaim
authors: A
authors: Aboussad
mesh_terms: D020345:Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*