Postoperative necrotizing enterocolitis due to incarcerated inguinal hernia in a preterm infant at term age equivalent

• Main Authors: Chanchal Kumar (Author), Murali Krishna Nagendla (Author), Rajeev Pothala (Author), Sushma Poornima Bathina (Author), VVS Chandrasekharam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Major neonatal surgeries have been well reported to be associated with postoperative development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Incarcerated inguinal hernia has been rarely reported to develop postoperative NEC in infant. We report a case of postoperative NEC in a preterm infant at term equival...