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Portal venous gas in a patient with Crohn's disease
1Department of Radiology, Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Portal venous gas usually occurs in the setting of an acute abdomen. Several causes for benign portal venous gas (PVG) have been reported. We describe the finding of PVG by computed tomography in a febrile patient with Crohn's disease and discuss the clinical implications of such a finding.