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Over the past decade, multiple factors have changed the pattern of neonatal surgical emergencies. An increase in prenatal screenings and the development of neonatal tertiary care centers have changed the clinical approach to this kind of emergencies. In fact, most conditions, leading to gastrointestinal (GI) emergencies, are uncommon, and treatment in specialist centers enables concentration of appropriate resources and expertise. Comorbidity is common, particularly in the preterm or low-birth-weight infant.
In the literature, nobody specifies the cutoff that enables to define when rare emergencies could be considered as common or uncommon.
We propose our series, compared with others in the literature, in order to specify which emergencies, although rare, could be considered common or uncommon in neonates.
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Messina, M., Molinaro, F., Angotti, R. (2018). Rare Surgical Emergencies of Newborns. In: Buonocore, G., Bracci, R., Weindling, M. (eds) Neonatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29489-6_230
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