Surgical aspects of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis: two case reports
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cases Journal
- Vol. 2 (1), 6452
- https://doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6452
Abstract
Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis is a rare disease usually caused by an underlying condition. It is defined as air filled cysts within the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. The purpose of this paper is the development of an algorithm for the surgical therapy of PCI based one two case reports.Keywords
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