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Hepatic portal venous gas in a patient with intestinal necrosis
Author(s) -
Siswojo Andy,
Ihle Benno U
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2010.01274.x
Subject(s) - medicine , necrosis , sigmoid colon , ischemia , intestinal ischemia , lesion , radiology , pathology , gastroenterology , reperfusion injury , rectum
This report describes a case of hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) in a patient with intestinal ischaemia and necrosis resulting from an obstructing lesion in the sigmoid colon. CT images demonstrating a large amount of HPVG are presented.