Preliminary Investigation of the Diagnosis of Neonatal Congenital Small Bowel Atresia by Ultrasound

Table 1

The clinical data on 20 cases with small bowel atresia.

Case	Sex	Age	Term or preterm	Vomiting	Pass meconium	Distention	Fasting	Bowel dilation (prenatal ultrasound)
1	m	2 d	Term	+	–	–	–	–
2	m	1 h	Preterm	–	–	–	+	+
3	m	6 h	Term	–	+	–	–	+
4	m	1 d	Term	+	+	–	–	+
5	f	6 h	Term	–	+	+	+	+
6	m	23 h	Preterm	–	–	–	+	+
7	m	1 d	Term	–	–	–	+	+
8	m	19 h	Term	–	–	+	+	+
9	m	17 h	Term	–	–	–	+	+
10	m	5 d	Term	+	–	+	–	–
11	m	2 d	Term	–	+	–	–	–
12	f	9 h	Preterm	–	–	–	+	+
13	m	21 h	Preterm	–	–	–	+	+
14	f	2 h	Term	–	+	–	+	+
15	m	7 d	Term	+	+	–	–	–
16	f	1 d	Term	–	–	+	+	+
17	m	19 h	Term	–	–	+	–	–
18	m	23 h	Term	–	–	–	+	+
19	f	1 d	Term	+	–	+	–	–
20	m	8 h	Term	–	+	+	+	+

m: male; f: female; h: hour; d: day. +: vomiting; –: no vomiting. +: pass meconium; –: fail to pass meconium. +: distention; –: no distention. +: fasting; –: feeded with breast milk. +: prenatal diagnosis of intestinal obstruction; –: no prenatal diagnosis of intestinal obstruction.