title: Necrotizing enterocolitis symposium: Epidemiology and early diagnosis.
abstract: Despite decades of research on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), the outlook for infants afflicted by this devastating disease is all too often bleak. The aim of this symposium at the BAPS conference in Amsterdam was to highlight recent advances in the knowledge of the epidemiology and diagnosis of NEC. There were important contributions on the disease in the United Kingdom, both from a neonatal and from a surgical point of view, whereas colleagues from the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe shared their insights into novel diagnostic tools, both biofluid and imaging based.
  
  
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authors.affiliation: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. Electronic address: s.eaton@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eaton
mesh_terms: D042241:Early Diagnosis; D020345:Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans
keywords: Diagnosis and treatment; Necrotizing enterocolitis