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Top: Health: Child_Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Digestive_Disorders: Necrotizing_Enterocolitis
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Affects mainly premature babies and seriously ill neonates. It is the most common surgical emergency in newborns. NEC accounts for 15% of deaths in premature babies weighing less than 1500 grams. Overall death from those babies with NEC is 25%.
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