兩位早産兒因呼吸窘迫症,在本院出生後馬上轉入新生兒加護病房治療。其後兩位病人均發生腹脹,嘔吐及血便,且胃管引流有膽汁樣液,腹部X光攝影顯示腸環膨脹,但沒有腸壁積氣。在懷疑壞死性腸炎診斷下治療後,腥脹並沒有改善,於是接受探腹手術。手術發現均爲廻腸-廻腸型腸套疊合併壞疽。兩列手術修正後病情皆穩定。由於早産兒腸套疊非常光見且臨床上與壞死性腸炎非常相似,常被延誤診斷,特提出病例報告,並討論之。
Two premature infants with respiratory distress developed abdominal distension, hematochezia and bile-stained vomitus during the course of admission. Plain abdomen X-ray showed dilation of bowel loops without evidence of pneumatosis intestinalis. Initially they were treated as necrotizing enterocolitis, but the symptoms persisted. Exploratory laparotomy showed ileo-ileal intussusception with gangrenous change. After surgical correction, the course was uneventful. As neonatal intussusception is rare, especially in the premature infant, and clinically can be mis-diagnosed as necrotizing enterocolitis, sonography can be very helpful in the differential diagnosis of intestinal obstruction in the newborn period.