Pneumoperitoneum in a patient with ulcerative colitis after sigmoidoscopy: Is this always an indication for surgery?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Na, Soo Young ^a   Kim, Kyung Jo ^a   Yang, Dong Hoon ^a   Jung, Keewook ^a   Ye, Byongduk ^a   Byeon, Jeong Sik ^a   Myung, Seung Jae ^a   Yang, Suk Kyun ^a   Kim, Jin Ho ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MESALAZINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANOREXIA; ASCENDING COLON; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON PERFORATION; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RECTUM BIOPSY; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STEROID THERAPY; TOUCH; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGED; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955875219     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21704     Document Type: Letter

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