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Spontaneous gas gangrene of the pancreas
H Sadeghi-Nejad1, K F O'Donnell, P A Banks
1Department of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine (P.A.B.), St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, MA 02135.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient had gas gangrene due to spontaneous Clostridium perfringens infection of the pancreas. He had not undergone any invasive procedure. An initial laparotomy ruled out a suspected intestinal origin of his infection; lack of evidence of pancreatitis before his acute attack indicated that no superinfection was involved. We have found no other report of primary gas gangrene of the pancreas.