Bowel ischemia following pneumonia in compromised children.
Two severely compromised children developed bowel necrosis in the context of severe pneumonia, presumably secondary to ischemia. No other obvious etiology for the abdominal pathology could be ascertained.
Department of Surgery, Rush University Medical Center.
Rashmi
R
Kabre
Ben Z
BZ
Katz
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007422:Intestines / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery