Primary Anastomosis Versus Enterostomy in the Surgical Treatment of Necrotising Enterocolitis

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Neonates found to have NEC totalis and deemed unsalvageable;
• •2. Neonates found to have multiple sites of gangrenous bowels which require more than two anastomoses;
• •3. Neonates found to be extremely unstable cardiovascularly intra-operatively and can only withstand excision of gangrenous bowels, but will not allow anastomosis or stoma creation;
• •4. Parents who do not agree to participate in the study
• •5. Neonates found to have pathology other than NEC after recruitment (either on intraoperative findings or pathological findings on surgical specimens).