Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?

Pneumoperitoneum in the presence of acute abdominal pain is well recognised as an indication for laparotomy. We present a case of acute abdominal pain in the presence of an incidental pneumoperitoneum secondary to the rupture of pneumatosis intestinalis. We will discuss the importance of clinical co...

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Autores principales: Buckle, Christopher, Holdridge, Christopher, Xu, Tina, Akhwais, Falah, Sinha, Aaditya, Doddi, Sudeendra, Sinha, Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3601500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23519013
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr929w
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author Buckle, Christopher
Holdridge, Christopher
Xu, Tina
Akhwais, Falah
Sinha, Aaditya
Doddi, Sudeendra
Sinha, Prakash
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description Pneumoperitoneum in the presence of acute abdominal pain is well recognised as an indication for laparotomy. We present a case of acute abdominal pain in the presence of an incidental pneumoperitoneum secondary to the rupture of pneumatosis intestinalis. We will discuss the importance of clinical context in the diagnosis and management of pneumoperitoneum and pneumatosis intestinalis.
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spelling pubmed-36015002013-03-21 Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy? Buckle, Christopher Holdridge, Christopher Xu, Tina Akhwais, Falah Sinha, Aaditya Doddi, Sudeendra Sinha, Prakash J Clin Med Res Case Report Pneumoperitoneum in the presence of acute abdominal pain is well recognised as an indication for laparotomy. We present a case of acute abdominal pain in the presence of an incidental pneumoperitoneum secondary to the rupture of pneumatosis intestinalis. We will discuss the importance of clinical context in the diagnosis and management of pneumoperitoneum and pneumatosis intestinalis. Elmer Press 2013-04 2013-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3601500/ /pubmed/23519013 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr929w Text en Copyright 2013, Buckle et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title_full Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title_fullStr Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title_full_unstemmed Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title_short Acute Abdominal Pain and Radiological Pneumoperitoneum - Always an Indication for Laparotomy?
title_sort acute abdominal pain and radiological pneumoperitoneum - always an indication for laparotomy?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3601500/
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