ArticleCureus2025
Necrotizing Enterocolitis Complicated by Hepatic Abscesses in a Neonate: Diagnostic Utility of an Abdominal Ultrasound.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We report a case of multiple liver abscesses after necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), which were successfully detected by ultrasound screening and treated successfully. This baby was not premature but had truncus arteriosus and was at risk of NEC. NEC developed on day 7, and abdominal drainage, bowel resection, and enterostomy were performed on day 12. The postoperative clinical course and laboratory data were uneventful. However, abdominal ultrasound screening, which was performed to check for any postoperative complications, revealed multiple liver abscesses on postoperative day 14. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography was performed at the same time, but only one of them was detected. Broad-spectrum antibiotics were administrated intravenously for eight weeks in total. Follow-up ultrasounds showed only scars by day 79. The prognosis for neonates with multiple liver abscesses after NEC is poor, but they could be detected by ultrasound and successfully treated while asymptomatic in this case. High spatial resolution for small lesions and noninvasiveness to patients make ultrasound suitable for screening neonatal liver abscesses. Neonatal NEC can cause fatal complications. The development of workup protocols, including ultrasound screening, may contribute to improved prognosis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.