Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis

Background: A 47-year-old male consulted the emergency department in our hospital with a history of short standing but aggravating peri-umbilical pain. In the past week he had no stools, a loss of appetite combined with episodes of nausea and vomitus. Clinical investigation showed diffuse abdominal...

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Main Authors: R M Blom, P Bracke, H Brusselaers, H Degryse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2012-05-01
Series:Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
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Online Access:https://www.jbsr.be/articles/309
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spelling doaj-549f754b74ae49eb903430fe20f7dbac2020-11-24T22:04:55ZengUbiquity PressJournal of the Belgian Society of Radiology2514-82812012-05-0195313013110.5334/jbr-btr.309309Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosisR M Blom0P Bracke1H Brusselaers2H Degryse3Department of Medical Imaging, AZ KLINA, Brasschaat, BelgiumDepartment of Medical Imaging, AZ KLINA, Brasschaat, BelgiumDepartment of Medical Imaging, AZ KLINA, Brasschaat, BelgiumDepartment of Medical Imaging, AZ KLINA, Brasschaat, BelgiumBackground: A 47-year-old male consulted the emergency department in our hospital with a history of short standing but aggravating peri-umbilical pain. In the past week he had no stools, a loss of appetite combined with episodes of nausea and vomitus. Clinical investigation showed diffuse abdominal tenderness and a distended abdomen. A contrast-enhanced CT scan of the abdomen was performed. During the further clinical work-up an intra-abdominal E. coli sepsis was diagnosedhttps://www.jbsr.be/articles/309Veinsmesenteric
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author R M Blom
P Bracke
H Brusselaers
H Degryse
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P Bracke
H Brusselaers
H Degryse
Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
Veins
mesenteric
author_facet R M Blom
P Bracke
H Brusselaers
H Degryse
author_sort R M Blom
title Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
title_short Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
title_full Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
title_fullStr Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
title_sort small bowel infarction due to mesenteric venous thrombosis
publisher Ubiquity Press
series Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
issn 2514-8281
publishDate 2012-05-01
description Background: A 47-year-old male consulted the emergency department in our hospital with a history of short standing but aggravating peri-umbilical pain. In the past week he had no stools, a loss of appetite combined with episodes of nausea and vomitus. Clinical investigation showed diffuse abdominal tenderness and a distended abdomen. A contrast-enhanced CT scan of the abdomen was performed. During the further clinical work-up an intra-abdominal E. coli sepsis was diagnosed
topic Veins
mesenteric
url https://www.jbsr.be/articles/309
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