Portal vein gas due to gangrenous cholecystitis treated by a laparoscopic procedure: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 909-912

  Napolitano, Luca ^a   Waku, Mathew ^a   Costantini, Raffaele ^a   Mazahreh, Tagleb ^a   Innocenti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Portal pneumatosis; Portal vein gas

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEVER; GANGRENE; GANGRENOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMORRHAGIC GASTRITIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PANCREAS FUNCTION TEST; PORTAL PNEUMATOSIS; PORTAL VEIN; STOMACH DISTENSION; STROKE; ULTRASOUND; VEIN EMBOLISM; VOMITING;

AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GANGRENE; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349558624     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3936-y     Document Type: Article

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