Spontaneous benign pneumoperitoneum complicating scleroderma in the absence of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.

We describe a 64 year old woman with a 3-year history of scleroderma who presented as an emergency with increasing painless abdominal distention. Radiological investigations revealed a pneumoperitoneum in the absence of either visceral perforation or pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. This is only...

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Main Authors: London, N. J., Bailey, R. G., Hall, A. W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Group 1990
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2429360/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2349171
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