Paediatric acute intestinal obstruction in central India
Tóm tắt
67 cases of acute intestinal obstruction in children were analysed. Intussusception (31.3%), external hernia (23.8%) and imperforated anus (16.4%) were the main causes of obstruction in more than 70 per cent of the cases. There are significant differences in the pattern of paediatric intestinal obstruction in developing countries, as compared with that in other parts of the world. The overall morbidity and mortality in this series was 26.8% and 23.8% per cent, and the neonatal mortality was 43.5%.
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