Journal Club - Can Ultrasound Help Us Better Identify Surgical NEC?
The Incubator Channel · 14 Apr 2026 · 15 min
Summary
A journal club review of a prospective pilot cohort study from Archives of Disease in Childhood assessing whether adding abdominal ultrasound to plain radiography improves surgical risk stratification in suspected NEC. It explains the study's unsupervised clustering approach and discusses how ultrasound features such as peristalsis, ascites and bowel perfusion helped separate infants by likelihood of surgery.
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