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Health education programmes are often evaluated to determine their effectiveness and cost benefit to the NHS. Author argues that evaluation is not always as straightforward as it may appear initially and therefore it is essential to determine the degree of validity associated with such exercises.
Although NSLCS has been considered to have a benign course, we have described an infant who had intrauterine intestinal perforation and meconium peritonitis associated with the NSLCS. Infants of diabetic mothers who are stillborn or who develop abdominal distention shortly after delivery should be suspected of having this complication of NSLCS. This disorder must also be considered in the differential diagnosis of infants who present with meconium peritonitis.
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