Staging of necrotising enterocolitis by Bell's criteria is supported by a statistical pattern analysis of clinical and radiological variables.
Sandra Meinich JuhlMathias Lühr HansenMagdalena GormsenThomas SkovGorm GreisenPublished in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2018)
An analysis of the pattern of clinical and radiographic findings in a 2006-2015 population of NEC cases supported Bell's 1978 staging system. However, the separation between NEC and spontaneous intestinal perforation still poses a difficult task.
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