TY - JOUR T1 - A gas-filled appendix on a plain X-ray of the abdomen in a preterm neonate JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F432 LP - F432 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307342 VL - 100 IS - 5 AU - V B Anna Venugopalan AU - C Keaney Y1 - 2015/09/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/100/5/F432.abstract N2 - A 72-day-old preterm baby girl, born at 27 weeks' gestation, presented with abdominal distension, tachypnoea and desaturations. She was on 0.01 L/min of oxygen for her chronic lung disease (ventilated initially for 4 weeks and subsequently managed on continuous positive airway pressure and high-flow oxygen). She was receiving 200 mL/kg/day of mother's breast milk via a nasogastric tube. Her oxygen requirement had increased to 0.1 L/min and her abdomen was distended, tense with palpable bowel loops. Blood gas, inflammatory markers and haemoglobin (9.4 g/dl) were within the normal range. She was initially managed conservatively for necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) with nil by mouth and triple antibiotics. An abdominal X-ray … ER -