title: [Gangrene of the intestine with pneumatosis intestinalis in a child with meningomyelocele].
abstract: A 13-year-old girl with meningomyelocele and a cauda-equina-paraplegia-syndrome, with resulting long-standing ileus, developed an extensive gangrene of the stomach, the small bowel and parts of the colon. As pathogenesis a non-occlusive-ischemia is suspected; the exceptional neurological situation is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000473:pathology; D007422:Intestines / Q000473:pathology*; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000150:complications*; D009336:Necrosis; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000473:pathology*; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Darmgangrän mit Pneumatosis intestinalis bei einem Kind mit Meningomyelozele.