Pneumatosis coli: A proposed pathogenesis based on study of 25 cases and review of the literature

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 111-118

  Gagliardi, G ^a   Thompson, I W ^a   Hershman, M J ^a   Forbes, A ^a   Hawley, P R ^a   Talbot, I C ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON RESECTION; CONSTIPATION; CYST; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE WALL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MUCUS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENCE RISK; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SUBMUCOSA;

ANXIETY; COLITIS; COLONIC DISEASES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOMATOSIS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS;

EID: 0029974969     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003840050031     Document Type: Article

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