title: Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. Presentation as an acute abdomen.
abstract: It is rare for pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis to give rise to abdominal pain. We report a patient with signs and symptoms of a perforated viscous in whom abdominal exploration was negative, but in whom biopsy of various intraabdominal cystic structures revealed only pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.
authors: Section of General Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut.
authors: W E
authors: WE
authors: Longo
authors: G H
authors: GH
authors: Ballantyne
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Graham
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis