Portal venous gas detected by computed tomography: Is surgery imperative?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 306-315

  Iannitti, David A ^a,b   Gregg, Shea C ^a   Mayo Smith, William W ^a   Tomolonis, Richard J ^a   Cioffi, William G ^a   Pricolo, Victor E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University Surgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Air embolism; Bowel obstruction; Complications; Hepatic portal venous gas; Inflammatory bowel disease; Mesenteric ischemia; Necrosis; Pneumatosis intestinalis; Portal venous gas

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VENOUS GAS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038349643     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071756     Document Type: Article

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