Superior mesenteric artery syndrome presenting with acute massive gastric dilatation, gastric wall pneumatosis, and portal venous gas

Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 840-843

  Lim, Jonathan E ^a   Duke, Gavin L ^a   Eachempati, Soumitra R ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEZOAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEJUNOSTOMY; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH WALL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0346243718     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(02)21677-3     Document Type: Article

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