Congenital Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction

Intestinal obstructions among neonates are almost always congenital and pose a huge challenge for the neonatal as well as for the pediatric surgeons globally. The different physiological features from older children place all neonates in a unique group of population. Neonates with intestinal obstructions constitute major cause of surgical admissions in all pediatric hospitals. In a very superficial review, till the latest issue of the 5th year of publication of this indexed journal, a total of approximately 45 articles were focused on some kind of congenital neonatal obstructions of different etiologies. Such is the magnitude of the problem, the reason why the editorial board took the noble decision to bring out an special issue addressing this particular group of anomalies which almost always present in the same way clinically & and the management objectives basically remain the same, to relieve the obstruction after adequate resuscitation, which almost always is a demanding task.