Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer

Phlegmonous enteritis is a rare infective inflammatory disease of the intestine, predominantly involving the submucosal layer. It is difficult to diagnose and often fatal. Its association with alcoholism and various liver diseases, although rarely reported, is well documented. We report a case of ph...

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Autores principales: Namkung, Sook, Yoo, Yoon Sik, Hwang, Im Kyung, Kim, Bong Soo, Bae, Sang Hoon, Choi, Young Hee
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11754332
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.235
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author Namkung, Sook
Yoo, Yoon Sik
Hwang, Im Kyung
Kim, Bong Soo
Bae, Sang Hoon
Choi, Young Hee
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Yoo, Yoon Sik
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Kim, Bong Soo
Bae, Sang Hoon
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description Phlegmonous enteritis is a rare infective inflammatory disease of the intestine, predominantly involving the submucosal layer. It is difficult to diagnose and often fatal. Its association with alcoholism and various liver diseases, although rarely reported, is well documented. We report a case of phlegmonous enteritis in a male patient with congestive heart failure and colon cancer, and describe the ultrasonographic and CT findings.
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spelling pubmed-27181272009-07-30 Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer Namkung, Sook Yoo, Yoon Sik Hwang, Im Kyung Kim, Bong Soo Bae, Sang Hoon Choi, Young Hee Korean J Radiol Case Report Phlegmonous enteritis is a rare infective inflammatory disease of the intestine, predominantly involving the submucosal layer. It is difficult to diagnose and often fatal. Its association with alcoholism and various liver diseases, although rarely reported, is well documented. We report a case of phlegmonous enteritis in a male patient with congestive heart failure and colon cancer, and describe the ultrasonographic and CT findings. The Korean Radiological Society 2001 2001-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2718127/ /pubmed/11754332 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.235 Text en Copyright © 2001 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Namkung, Sook
Yoo, Yoon Sik
Hwang, Im Kyung
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Bae, Sang Hoon
Choi, Young Hee
Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title_full Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title_fullStr Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title_short Phlegmonous Enteritis in a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure and Colon Cancer
title_sort phlegmonous enteritis in a patient with congestive heart failure and colon cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11754332
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.235
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