Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Teaching Point: Intestinal pneumatosis associated with pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum, and subcutaneous emphysema is an extremely rare complication of leukemia; even though its imaging appearance can be alarming, a benign treatment-associated etiology should always be considered in this subset...

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Autores principales: Vilares, Ana T., Viamonte, Bárbara, Madureira, António J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2022
Materias:
Images in Clinical Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35581975
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2785
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description Teaching Point: Intestinal pneumatosis associated with pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum, and subcutaneous emphysema is an extremely rare complication of leukemia; even though its imaging appearance can be alarming, a benign treatment-associated etiology should always be considered in this subset of patients so that unnecessary interventions can be avoided.
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spelling pubmed-90535252022-05-16 Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Vilares, Ana T. Viamonte, Bárbara Madureira, António J. J Belg Soc Radiol Images in Clinical Radiology Teaching Point: Intestinal pneumatosis associated with pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum, and subcutaneous emphysema is an extremely rare complication of leukemia; even though its imaging appearance can be alarming, a benign treatment-associated etiology should always be considered in this subset of patients so that unnecessary interventions can be avoided. Ubiquity Press 2022-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9053525/ /pubmed/35581975 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2785 Text en Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Images in Clinical Radiology
Vilares, Ana T.
Viamonte, Bárbara
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Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_full Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_fullStr Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_short Extensive Colonic Pneumatosis, Pneumoperitoneum, Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema – a Rare Pattern of Complications in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_sort extensive colonic pneumatosis, pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema – a rare pattern of complications in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
topic Images in Clinical Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35581975
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2785
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