Lactulose-induced pneumatosis intestinalis and pneumoperitoneum

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2549-2553

  Goodman, Robert A ^a   Riley III, Thomas R ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactulose; Liver disease; Pneumatosis; Pneumoperitoneum

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BISACODYL; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIATRIZOATE; HYDROGEN; LACTULOSE; MACROGOL; NEOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; LACTULOSE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM;

EID: 0034755236     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012308911096     Document Type: Article

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