Leukemic intestinal pneumatosis.
A benign form of pneumatosis intestinalis has been reported in children with leukemia but also occurs in adults as we report here. Radiologists must be familiar with this entity or a mistaken diagnosis of an abdominal catastrophe will be made, committing the patient to unneccessary emergency surgery.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000150:complications*; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography