Mesenteric and portal vein gas: Computerized tomography findings and clinical significance

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-131

  Paran, Haim ^a   Epstein, Tsvi ^a   Gutman, Mordechai ^a   Feinberg, Myra Shapiro ^a   Zissin, Rivka ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Mesenteric infarct; Pancreatitis; Pneumatosis intestinalis; Portal venous gas

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLECTOMY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN GAS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN PNEUMATOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037265531     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069388     Document Type: Article

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