[Experience with surgical treatment of newborns with necrotizing enterocolitis]

At the period from 1984 through 2010 there were 306 patients with necrotizing enterocolitis aged from 1 to 13 days. Conservative therapy in 214 (70%) cases resulted in favorable outcome of the disease. Operative treatment was necessary in 92 (30%) neonates. In 26 of them double entero-, colostomies were performed, in 7 patients ulcer defects were sutured, in 6 patients parts of intestinal necroses were resected with applying primary end-to-end anastomoses, in 15 patients--laparostomas in combination with intestinal stomas, in 13 patients isolated laparostomas, in 8 patients diagnostic laparotomies.