Author’s Accepted Manuscript Changing the paradigm of defining, detecting, and diagnosing NEC: Perspectives on bell′s stages and biomarkers for NEC Sheila M. Gephart, Phillip V. Gordon, Alexander H. Penn, Katherine E. Gregory, Jonathan R. Swanson, Akhil Maheshwari, Karl Sylvester PII: S1055-8586(17)30135-X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2017.11.002 Reference: YSPSU50722 To appear in: Seminars in Pediatric Surgery Cite this article as: Sheila M. Gephart, Phillip V. Gordon, Alexander H. Penn, Katherine E. Gregory, Jonathan R. Swanson, Akhil Maheshwari and Karl Sylvester, Changing the paradigm of defining, detecting, and diagnosing NEC: Perspectives on bell′s stages and biomarkers for NEC, Seminars in Pediatric Surgery,doi:10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2017.11.002 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. image www.elsevier.com/locate/bios