Necrotizing enteritis with hepatic portal venous gas and pneumatosis intestinalis: Report of a case

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-203

  Fukumori, Daisuke ^a   Sasaki, Takamitsu ^a   Matsumoto, Hisanobu ^a   Ohmori, Hitoshi ^b   Kakazu, Toru ^c   Yamamoto, Fumio ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamamoto Surgical Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic portal venous gas; Necrotizing enteritis; Pneumatosis intestinalis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MOUTH; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; NECROSIS; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 0037331733     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200302000-00017     Document Type: Article

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