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.
Kabre
Rashmi
R
Department of Surgery, Rush University Medical Center.
Katz
Ben Z
BZ
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