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Multimodality Diagnosis of Mesenteric Ischemia
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Computed tomography finding of portal venous gas in a patient who survived mesenteric infarction
1Department of Surgery, Western Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. evandyer@netconnect.com.au
ANZ Journal of Surgery
|June 4, 2005
Abstract:
Hepatic portal venous gas can be a marker of serious intra-abdominal pathology with mortality between 29% and 79%. We report a case of portal venous gas discovered on computerized tomography in a patient presenting with abdominal pain. The finding was unusual in that the patient was not critically unwell at presentation and made a good recovery after laparotomy with small bowel resection.
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