title: [Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis: associated diseases, morphology and presumed pathogenesis].
abstract: Based on six cases, the clinical presentation, morphology and presumable pathogenesis of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) are discussed. As a rule PCI is not a disease in its own right, but a complication of very different, in part extraintestinal diseases. These can be subsumed in three groups. Group 1 includes patients with PCI as a complication of lung disease and initially normal intestinal status. The patients in group 2 develop pneumatosis on the grounds of intestinal disease secondary to primary extraintestinal or generalized disease. In group 3 pneumatosis develops as a complication of primary gastrointestinal disease.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Pathologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Theegarten
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Rühl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D007422:Intestines / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis: assoziierte Erkrankungen, Morphologie und mutmassliche Pathogenese.