Acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing bowel ischemia

This case report documents the medical progression of a 56-year-old man who presented with a small bowel obstruction and was found to have acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing small intestinal ischemia. A large portion of the proximal jejunal mesentery was necrotic with vascu...

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Autor principal: Carr, John Alfred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6831955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz304
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description This case report documents the medical progression of a 56-year-old man who presented with a small bowel obstruction and was found to have acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing small intestinal ischemia. A large portion of the proximal jejunal mesentery was necrotic with vascular thrombosis leading to small bowel ischemia and obstruction. He was successfully managed surgically and survived. The evaluation and possible aetiologies are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-68319552019-11-13 Acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing bowel ischemia Carr, John Alfred J Surg Case Rep Case Report This case report documents the medical progression of a 56-year-old man who presented with a small bowel obstruction and was found to have acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing small intestinal ischemia. A large portion of the proximal jejunal mesentery was necrotic with vascular thrombosis leading to small bowel ischemia and obstruction. He was successfully managed surgically and survived. The evaluation and possible aetiologies are discussed. Oxford University Press 2019-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6831955/ /pubmed/31723403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz304 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Acute fulminant necrotizing mesenteric lymphadenitis causing bowel ischemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6831955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723403
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