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Postgraduate Medical Journal 1979;55:22-23; doi:10.1136/pgmj.55.639.22
© 1979 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Rectal bleeding in the first month of life.

M. I. Levene

Sixty-nine infants were examined who presented with rectal bleeding in the first month of life. In 64% of these children no cause was found. Infantile diarrhoea, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn and anal fissure were the most common diagnoses made. The mortality in the entire group was less than 3%. It is concluded that rectal bleeding in this age group is a relatively benign condition and in certain cases hospital admission may not be required.


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