Portal-venous gas unrelated to mesenteric ischemia

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1432-1437

  Wiesner, Walter ^a,b   Mortelé, Koenraad J ^a   Glickman, Jonathan N ^a   Ji, Hoon ^a   Ros, Pablo R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Intrahepatic gas; Porta venous gas; Portal venous air

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFARCTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE NECROSIS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MESENTERY; OVARY CANCER; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL VEIN PNEUMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; SUPERINFECTION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GAS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MESENTERIC BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH; STOMACH TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLECTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASES; GRAFT VS HOST REACTION; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC VASCULAR OCCLUSION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036596207     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1159-3     Document Type: Review

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