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Successful treatment of liver hemorrhage in the premature infant
C M Strear1, J L Graf, C T Albanese
1Fetal Treatment Center, Department of General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|July 11, 1998
Abstract:
Intraoperative neonatal liver hemorrhage usually results in exsanguination and death. The parenchyma of a neonatal liver is fragile, and the capsule is very thin, unlike that in the pediatric and adult patient. This renders the treatment of a neonatal liver fracture almost universally unsuccessful. The current report describes two cases of successful management of intraoperative neonatal liver hemorrhage during surgery for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).