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    • The microbiology of bacterial peritonitis due to appendicitis in children.
      Obinwa, O; Casidy, M; Flynn, J (2014-12)
      The aim of this study was to investigate the microbiology of secondary bacterial peritonitis due to appendicitis and the appropriateness of current antimicrobial practice in one institution.

    • MRI evaluation of pelvic lymph nodes
      Sheppard, D; Ward, J (2011-11)
      Radiological Society of North America

    • Paediatric hip sonography – how to do it
      Corbally, C; Tuohy, A (2012-08-10)

    • Targeted Anti-D, The First Irish Perspective
      McCormick, C.A; Mulvany, L; De Tavernier, M.C (Irish Medical Journal, 2019-04)
      The use of anti-D to prevent haemolytic disease of the new-born can be regarded as one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. Rhesus antibodies cause significant harm to rhesus positive foetuses in utero including anaemia, jaundice, hydrops fetalis and stillbirth. Deaths due to haemolytic disease of the new born have fallen dramatically. In the UK 1 in 2180 babies in 1953 died due to Rhesus haemolytic disease. 37 years later, in 1990, this figure had dropped to 1 in 62,500 1. Recent initiatives including the routine administration of anti-D at 28-32 weeks gestation have further reduced the incidence of sensitisation2.