Pneumoperitoneum due to PCI in a patient with a strangulated femoral hernia.
Although pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) is a well-recognised condition, an individual surgeon is unlikely to encounter it often. The collected experience of two surgical units in Glasgow teaching hospitals over a 15-year period consisted of five patients. Surgical and radiological trainees may therefore have little or no exposure to the diagnostic difficulties this condition can cause. We report an illustrative case.
Kelly
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Department of Radiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Cooper
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Mills
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006550:Hernia, Femoral / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011027:Pneumoperitoneum / Q000209:etiology*