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Vol. 91. Núm. 6.
Páginas e35 (junio - julio 2013)
Vol. 91. Núm. 6.
Páginas e35 (junio - julio 2013)
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Intestinal Cystic Pneumatosis
Neumatosis quística intestinal
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Jesús Manuel Peraza-Casajúsa,
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, Ignacio Bodega Quirogaa, Miguel Ángel Sierra Ortegaa, Ángeles Izquierdob
a Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Central de la Defensa Gómez-Ulla, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
b Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Central de la Defensa Gómez-Ulla, Madrid, Spain
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A 70-year-old male patient came to our Emergency Department due to abdominal pain and distension. Physical exploration: distended abdomen, soft without rigidity and without signs of peritoneal irritation. Analysis: leukocytes 16750μm/l; neutrophils 90.9%. Abdominal-pelvic CT: pneumoperitoneum with multiple thin-walled small air cysts on the wall of the small intestine (Fig. 1). The patient was treated with triple antibiotic therapy, gentamicin, metronidazole and ampicillin, and symptoms improved. Five months later, the patient was admitted due to acute cholecystitis and underwent open cholecystectomy with removal of a twisted cyst adhered to the anterior side of hepatic segment III. The cyst was sent for pathology study, which showed a cystic wall with dilated and congested blood vessels, partially covered internally with flat epithelium (Fig. 2). Intestinal cystic pneumatosis is an uncommon disease that causes spontaneous pneumoperitoneum, which can be treated conservatively, and must be recognized in order to avoid unnecessary surgical interventions.

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Please cite this article as: Peraza-Casajús JM, Bodega Quiroga I, Sierra Ortega MÁ, Izquierdo Á. Neumatosis quística intestinal. Cir Esp. 2013;91:e35.

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