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Jaundice is clinically detectable when bilirubin is >50 μmol/L (≡3 mg/dL). Up to 60% of infants will be jaundiced in the first week of life. 1 in 50–100 infants will have persistence of jaundice at 2 weeks, though in most this is unconjugated. About 1–4/1000 infants will have conjugated jaundice—the most important sign of a surgical cause.
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Davenport, M. (2022). Investigation of Jaundice. In: Sinha, C.K., Davenport, M. (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84467-7_24
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