Comparative outcomes of babies with pure small bowel and pure colonic NEC
| Small bowel (n=58) | Colonic (n=17) | P value | |
| Time to laparotomy (d), median (range) | 3 (1–40) | 5 (0–35) | 0.152 |
| Mortality, n (%) | 13 (22) | 3 (17) | 1.00 |
| PN time for pre-NEC and post-NEC (d), median (range) | 73 (10–148) | 19 (7–83) | 0.002 |
| Inotrope time (d), median (range) | 0.5 (0–3) | 1 (0–5) | 0.992 |
Values in bold indicates statistically significant.
NEC, necrotizing enterocolitis; PN, parenteral nutrition.