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Images in neonatal medicine
Perforated colonic duplication masquerading as necrotising enterocolitis
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A 25+5 week preterm infant developed tender abdominal distension and bilious gastric aspirates. He had thrombocytopenia and raised C-reactive protein. An abdominal x-ray examination disclosed bowel loop separation indicative of bowel wall thickening. He developed features of sepsis and blood cultures yielded Klebsiella spp. He was treated conservatively for presumed necrotising …
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