Pneumatosis Intestinalis: Not Always a Surgical Indication

We present a case of pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) of the colon in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease that was treated with medical management rather than emergent surgery. While the reflex response to extraluminal air in the abdomen is abdominal exploration, consideration of the clinical con...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Haijing, Jun, Stephanie L., Brennan, Todd V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/719713
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description We present a case of pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) of the colon in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease that was treated with medical management rather than emergent surgery. While the reflex response to extraluminal air in the abdomen is abdominal exploration, consideration of the clinical context in which PI is discovered and an understanding of a complete differential diagnosis of the sources of PI is critical to avoiding unnecessary surgery.
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spelling pubmed-35028232012-11-29 Pneumatosis Intestinalis: Not Always a Surgical Indication Zhang, Haijing Jun, Stephanie L. Brennan, Todd V. Case Rep Surg Case Report We present a case of pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) of the colon in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease that was treated with medical management rather than emergent surgery. While the reflex response to extraluminal air in the abdomen is abdominal exploration, consideration of the clinical context in which PI is discovered and an understanding of a complete differential diagnosis of the sources of PI is critical to avoiding unnecessary surgery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3502823/ /pubmed/23198249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/719713 Text en Copyright © 2012 Haijing Zhang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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