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Neonatal intestinal perforation often represents a serious condition, and prognosis remains poor in low-birth-weight infants. Tissue is fragile with little reserve for invasion; therefore, it is important to always practice extreme caution and perform surgery that is rapid and precise. The primary objective of the surgery is to save the life of the infant; thus, a simple surgery should be performed that is minimally invasive and completed in the shortest possible time. For patients in whom suture failure is likely and postoperative long-term enteral feeding is anticipated to be difficult, it is safer to perform enterostomy.
The figures in this chapter are reprinted with permission from the Standard Pediatric Operative Surgery (in Japanese), Medical View Co., Ltd., 2013, with the exception of occasional newly added figures that may appear.
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Urushihara, N. (2016). Gastrointestinal Perforation. In: Taguchi, T., Iwanaka, T., Okamatsu, T. (eds) Operative General Surgery in Neonates and Infants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55876-7_37
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