Management of hepatic portal venous gas and pneumatosis intestinalis in critically sick adult patients

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1019-1020

  Khorram Manesh, Amir ^a   Odn, Anders ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIVERTICULITIS; GAS EMBOLISM; HEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS GAS; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LETTER; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70350681232     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520903030811     Document Type: Letter

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