Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most often encountered pathology of newborns and always requires an emerging surgery in cases of perforation. An active study of more important diagnostic factors at early stages of a disease is one of the first aims of neonatologists and pediatric surgeons. This study was therefore designed to examine the state of diagnostic problems in patients presenting with Necrotizing enterocolitis, identification of possible ways of the improvement of a patient's diagnosis suffering from Necrotizing enterocolitis and patients with perforated enterocolitis, definition of the possibilities of roentgenologic methods for the determination of a disease stage of Necrotizing enterocolitis. 69 infants aged one day to 1.5 months admitted at surgical department of K.Y. Farajeva Research Institute of Pediatrics between 2016 and 2021 inclusive were treated and evaluated. The capabilities of plain radiography and using radiocontrast methods of study to reveal NEC stages have been evaluated. The use of CSM has advantages: simplicity and accessibility in use, high diagnostic informativeness, identification of objective signs of NEC in 2-3 hours of research, allows assessing the severity of the patient's condition at an early date and timely correct treatment.
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