title: Portal venous gas following trauma in a preterm infant.
abstract: During the neonatal period, pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) and portal venous gas (PVG) are pathognomonic of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Rare cases of such findings evolving after abdominal trauma have been reported in adults and children, but none in premature infants. We report a case of a 3-week-old premature infant where both PI and PVG were found following a fall from a scale. The presence of these findings prior to the evolvement of clinical symptoms suggestive of NEC strongly supports a traumatic etiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatology, Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Zivanit
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ergaz
authors.forename: Ilan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Arad
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Simanovsky
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020345:Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology