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Perforated necrotising enterocolitis presenting as a rapidly expanding abdominal mass in a preterm neonate
  1. Caroline Laura Charlesworth1,2,
  2. Fauzia Paize1,
  3. Kate Amy Kewley1,2
  1. 1Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK
  2. 2School of Paediatrics, Health Education England Northwest, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Caroline Laura Charlesworth, School of Paediatrics, Health Education England Northwest, UK.; c.charlesworth{at}doctors.org.uk

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A baby born weighing 760 g at 24 weeks’ gestation required ventilation and quadruple inotropic support initially. At 4 weeks old he remained ventilated but stable and was on a second course of antibiotics for conservative management of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) due to bilious aspirates, a raised C reactive protein and featureless abdominal film. At …

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