Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder

An 81-year-old woman presented with multiple episodes of loose bowel movements. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis and asymptomatic emphysematous cystitis. The patient had an extensive workup with no obvious identified pathology to explain diffuse pneumatos...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam K, Vazquez, Oscar A, Lopez-Viego, Miguel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Urology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607296
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8313
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description An 81-year-old woman presented with multiple episodes of loose bowel movements. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis and asymptomatic emphysematous cystitis. The patient had an extensive workup with no obvious identified pathology to explain diffuse pneumatosis of the small bowel and bladder. Her symptoms improved with symptomatic management, empirical antibiotics, and no surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-73206562020-06-29 Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder Gupta, Anupam K Vazquez, Oscar A Lopez-Viego, Miguel Cureus Urology An 81-year-old woman presented with multiple episodes of loose bowel movements. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis and asymptomatic emphysematous cystitis. The patient had an extensive workup with no obvious identified pathology to explain diffuse pneumatosis of the small bowel and bladder. Her symptoms improved with symptomatic management, empirical antibiotics, and no surgical intervention. Cureus 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7320656/ /pubmed/32607296 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8313 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title_full Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title_fullStr Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title_short Idiopathic Pneumatosis of Small Bowel and Bladder
title_sort idiopathic pneumatosis of small bowel and bladder
topic Urology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320656/
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