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Diagnostic efficacy of high-frequency ultrasound and X-ray contrast enema in colonic strictures after necrotizing enterocolitis: a retrospective study. Pediatr Surg Int 2022; 39:56. [PMID: 36542173 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-022-05278-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of high-frequency ultrasound and X-ray contrast enema in the diagnosis of colonic strictures after necrotizing enterocolitis. METHODS This study included pediatric patients who developed progressive abdominal distension or constipation after conservative treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis at our hospital between June 2012 and April 2020. All patients had high-frequency ultrasounds and X-ray contrast enema, and we used surgery, pathology, and telephone return visits as the reference standard. Patients with colonic strictures were confirmed by surgery and pathology. A patient was considered without colonic stricture if no stricture was reported or did not have related symptoms during telephone return visits. The areas under the Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used as evaluation indexes to compare the differential efficacy of high-frequency ultrasound and X-ray contrast enema. RESULTS A total of 81 patients have been included in this study. Among them, 49 patients were diagnosed with colonic strictures after necrotizing enterocolitis. The AUCs for high-frequency ultrasound and X-ray contrast enema were 0.990 vs 0.938, respectively (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION The diagnostic efficacy of high-frequency ultrasound was similar to that of X-ray contrast enema, furthermore this study also demonstrates the benefits of using high-frequency ultrasound to identify colonic strictures after necrotizing enterocolitis.
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Naguib N, Mekhail P, Gupta V, Naguib N, Masoud A. Portal venous gas and pneumatosis intestinalis; radiologic signs with wide range of significance in surgery. JOURNAL OF SURGICAL EDUCATION 2012; 69:47-51. [PMID: 22208832 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2011.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2011] [Accepted: 07/20/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Portal vein gas (PVG) was described as an uncommon ominous radiologic sign usually harboring an intra-abdominal catastrophe. When accompanied by pneumatosis intestinalis (PI), it is more predictive of bowel ischemia. Since the wide use of computed tomography (CT), both signs could also be viewed as incidental findings during routine radiologic investigations. METHODS We present a series of 12 cases that showed either or both signs, collected in a district general hospital between 1991 and 2011. RESULTS The diagnoses in these cases varied between fatal bowel ischemia and the mere presence of radiologic signs in the absence of significant pathology. CONCLUSION PVG and PI are radiologic signs that can represent a wide range of pathology.
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- Nader Naguib
- Department of Surgery, Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom.
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Epelman M, Daneman A, Navarro OM, Morag I, Moore AM, Kim JH, Faingold R, Taylor G, Gerstle JT. Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Review of State-of-the-Art Imaging Findings with Pathologic Correlation. Radiographics 2007; 27:285-305. [PMID: 17374854 DOI: 10.1148/rg.272055098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Plain abdominal radiography is the current standard imaging modality for evaluation of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Sonography is still not routinely used for diagnosis and follow-up, as it is not widely recognized that it can provide information that is not provided by plain abdominal radiography and that may affect the management of NEC. Like plain abdominal radiography, sonography can depict intramural gas, portal venous gas, and free intraperitoneal gas. However, the major advantages of abdominal sonography over plain abdominal radiography are that it can depict intraabdominal fluid, bowel wall thickness, and bowel wall perfusion. Sonography may depict changes consistent with NEC when the plain abdominal radiographic findings are nonspecific and inconclusive. Thinning of the bowel wall and lack of perfusion at sonography are highly suggestive of nonviable bowel and may be seen before visualization of pneumoperitoneum at plain abdominal radiography. The mortality rate is higher after perforation; thus, earlier detection of severely ischemic or necrotic bowel loops, before perforation occurs, could potentially improve the morbidity and mortality in NEC. The information provided by sonography allows a more complete understanding of the state of the bowel in patients with NEC and may thus make management decisions easier and potentially change outcome.
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- Monica Epelman
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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An infant treated with necrotizing enterocolitis, had a cholecystoenteric fistula, which was found incidentally on routine contrast study of his intestinal tract before closure of his ileostomy. To the best of the author's knowledge this complication has not been reported before.
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- Mohammad M Saleem
- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan
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The most common gastrointestinal emergency in the newborn is necrotizing enterocolitis. Premature babies are the most likely victims, but it also occurs in full-term infants. Although great strides have been made in elucidating some of the factors responsible for necrotizing enterocolitis, such as intestinal ischemia, bacterial overgrowth, and feeding dysfunction, the exact etiology is as yet unclear. The timing and indications for surgery differ from institution to institution, but the long-term outcome is similar in most large series. The overall mortality rate remains about 20% to 40%, and of the survivors, about one half seem to have no sequelae, the remaining infants having neurologic and gastrointestinal deficits of various degrees of significance.
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- S Kleinhaus
- Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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Sen S, Rajadurai VS, Ford WD. Late onset bowel stenoses after neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. AUSTRALIAN PAEDIATRIC JOURNAL 1988; 24:366-8. [PMID: 3242483 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1988.tb01391.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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In 14 cases of bowel stenoses occurring after neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), eight cases presented early, within 8 weeks from the onset of NEC and three beyond 4 months. In the other three cases the stenoses occurred in defunctionalized loops. The late onset stenoses remained undiagnosed until they presented with acute, life-threatening complications, and one of these patients died. We draw attention to these late onset stenoses which could be missed in early contrast studies, and recommend a study at 4 months rather than at 4 weeks, as previously recommended. Those presenting early should not be missed, as all of our cases presented with acute and obvious intestinal obstructions, and they were all still in hospital or undergoing frequent review.
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- S Sen
- Department of Paediatric Surgery, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia
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Musemeche CA, Kosloske AM, Ricketts RR. Enterostomy in necrotizing enterocolitis: an analysis of techniques and timing of closure. J Pediatr Surg 1987; 22:479-83. [PMID: 3612435 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3468(87)80200-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Resection and enterostomy are the standard operative procedures for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). In order to compare the results of two different methods of enterostomy, a study was carried out in 100 infants with NEC who underwent enterostomy formation and closure. A single surgeon at each of the two collaborating institutions conducted the majority of operations. Level of enterostomy was jejunum in 10, ileum in 75, and colon in 15. Type of enterostomy was separate stomas (usually brought out side by side) in 50, Mikulicz enterostomy in 39, single stoma with Hartmann's pouch in 10, and loop colostomy in 1. Complications of enterostomy formation occurred in 24 infants (24%). When infants with separate stomas were compared with those with the Mikulicz enterostomy, there was no difference in the rate of stomal or wound complications. The separate stomas had a higher rate of stricture formation in the distal bowel (36% v 18%), which may be accounted for by earlier reestablishment of intestinal continuity in the Mikulicz group. Both methods exteriorized the bowel ends close to one another, which was advantageous because subsequent closure was usually performed without a formal laparotomy. After enterostomy closure, 17 (17%) infants had complications. There was no difference in complication rate between early (before 3 months or under 2.5 kg) v late closure, or between closure of the Mikulicz enterostomy v separate stomas (although the Mikulicz enterostomy closure was accomplished more rapidly than closure of separate stomas). Morbidity was unrelated to level of enterostomy, type of enterostomy, maturing the stoma, bringing it through a separate incision, or age or weight of the infant at closure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Schwartz MZ, Richardson CJ, Hayden CK, Swischuk LE, Tyson KR. Intestinal stenosis following successful medical management of necrotizing enterocolitis. J Pediatr Surg 1980; 15:890-9. [PMID: 7463292 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3468(80)80300-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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In the past decade, increased clinical awareness and better medical and surgical management of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has resulted in improved survival. With an increase in the number of infants surviving the acute stages of NEC the sequelae, including intestinal stenosis, have become more apparent. In the past 5.5 yr, 62 patients with NEC have been treated at our institution. Of the 28 survivors of medical management for NEC seven patients developed intestinal stenosis. An average of 23 days elapsed between the recovery from NEC and the diagnosis of colonic stenosis. Only three patients manifested symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Two patients had blood in their stools and two patients were asymptomatic. Five infants were managed by primary or staged resection of the intestinal stenosis. The remaining two patients were treated nonoperatively. Our data suggests a high incidence of intestinal stenosis (25%) following medical management of NEC. There is a marked preference for the stenosis to occur on the left side of the colon. Colon stenoses can exist without symptoms and radiographically proven areas of stenosis can resolve. We recommend that all infants following medical management of NEC have a barium enema prior to hospital discharge. In selected cases asymptomatic patients with colonic stenosis may not require operative intervention.
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Virjee J, Somers S, DeSa D, Stevenson G. Changing patterns of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOLOGY 1979; 4:169-75. [PMID: 456832 DOI: 10.1007/bf01887519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In a 4 year and 4 month period 80 patients with necrotizing enterocolitis were treated. Review of the mode of clinical presentation, radiological features, management, mortality, and complications showed that there have been considerable changes over this period. The disease is now frequently diagnosed clinically prior to the development of paralytic ileus. Scalloping of the bowel wall and separation of the bowel loops are probably the earliest radiological signs. The management has become a more aggressive medical approach with more limited and well-defined surgical indications. These changes have been associated with a marked decrease in mortality and a concomitant increase in the number of late complications.
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MESH Headings
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/complications
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/diagnosis
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/therapy
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/complications
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/diagnosis
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/therapy
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Virjee JP, Gill GJ, Desa D, Somers S, Stevenson GW. Strictures and other late complications of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis. Clin Radiol 1979; 30:25-31. [PMID: 421420 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9260(79)80036-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Eighty infants have been treated for neonatal necrotising enterocolitis within a period of five years. Twenty-five per cent developed strictures of the small or large intestine. Four cases of atresia including two with multiple cyst formation were seen. Four patients developed severe malabsorption requiring hyperalimentation with slow recovery of small bowel function in two survivors. The radiological features of these complications is illustrated and the role of radiology in the management of these patients is discussed.
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Daneman A, Woodward S, de Silva M. The radiology of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). A review of 47 cases and the literature. Pediatr Radiol 1978; 7:70-7. [PMID: 673533 DOI: 10.1007/bf00975674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The radiological findings in 47 neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) are reviewed. The presence of nonspecific, generalized bowel dilatation is stressed as being an important sign in early diagnosis and the progress of the distribution of the dilated loops is important in evaluating progress of the disease process. It is thus the key to the radiology of NEC. Intramural gas and portal venous gas are not always related to the severity of the disease and their disappearance is not always related to clinical improvement. These signs are therefore poor prognostic indicators. Important radiological indications for surgery besides free intraperitoneal gas and free fluid include: 1. diminished bowel gas with asymmetric loops, and 2. persistent dilated loops. Because of the number of colonic strictures seen at our hospital we advise routine barium enemas (several weeks after the acute phase) in all infants who have had NEC. Following bowel resection contrast studies of both distal and proximal remaining bowel are essential to exclude further stricture formation prior to final reanastomosis.
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Forty-infants were diagnosed as having necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) during a 33 months' period; these represented 4% of all neonatal admissions. Pathological confirmation was obtained at surgery in 12 cases and at autopsy in 11, In the case of 21 infants who recovered without operation, the diagnosis was based on clinical and radiological criteria inculding the presence of intramural gas. NEC occurred primarily, though not exclusively , in low-birth-weight infants. Two-thirds of the infants developed NEC in the first week of life. Clinical features attributable to gastrointestinal malfunction as well as a systemic illness could be defined. Complications included pneumoperitoneum (34%), localized peritonitis as suggested by the development of an abdominal mass (11%) and intestinal obstruction (25%). Fourteen of the 15 cases of pneumoperitoneum were diagnosed within 24 hours after the onset of NEC. The 5 infants were localized peritonitis, who were managed conservatively initially, developed intestinal obstruction during recovery. Intestinal obstruction presented between 2 and 7 weeks after the onset of NEC. The overally mortality was 25%, infants with intestinal perforation or obstruction having and increased mortality of 38%.
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LAKE ALANM, WALKER WALLAN. Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis: A Disease of Altered Host Defense. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0300-5089(21)00163-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In a 3-yr period, eight infants among 43 survivors of acute NEC developed intestinal stricture. Four infants developed multiple stricture after proximal diversion procedures, and four had single strictures after medical therapy. Nineteen cases of intestinal stricture after NEC were collected from the literature. Radiographic examinations at the time of the acute disease were not predictive of the risk of subsequent stricture. Histologic examination showed various stages of wound healing, most prominently in the submucosa. Stricture should be considered as the cause of intestinal malfunction in any child who survives acute NEC.
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MESH Headings
- Constriction, Pathologic/etiology
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/complications
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/diagnostic imaging
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/pathology
- Female
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/complications
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/diagnostic imaging
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/pathology
- Intestinal Diseases/diagnostic imaging
- Intestinal Diseases/etiology
- Intestinal Diseases/pathology
- Intestines/pathology
- Male
- Radiography
- Wound Healing
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Touloukian RJ. Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis: an update on etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Surg Clin North Am 1976; 56:281-98. [PMID: 1265596 DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6109(16)40877-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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