Hepatic Portal Gas in Adults: Review of the Literature and Presentation of a Consecutive Series of 11 Cases

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1367-1370

  Peloponissios, Nicolas ^a   Halkic, Nermin ^a   Pugnale, Mauro ^a   Jornod, Philippe ^a   Nordback, Petter ^a   Meyer, Alain ^b   Gillet, Michel ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hospital of Morges   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS GAS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE WALL; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345060513     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.12.1367     Document Type: Review

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