TY - JOUR
T1 - Pneumatosis intestinalis in association with connective tissue disease
AU - Morrison, W. James
AU - Siegelman, Stanley S.
PY - 1976/12
Y1 - 1976/12
N2 - Pneumatosis intestinalis in association with connective tissue diseases is an unusual combination whose pathogenesis is not yet understood. Furthermore, steroid medication, often used to treat these diseases, may itself cause pneumatosis. Three cases of scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and amyioidosis in association with pneumatosis and without prior steroid therapy are presented. The small vessel occlusive pathologic processes in these diseases may cause focal areas of mucosal ischemia resulting in small, perhaps translent ulcerations that allow gas to enter the gut wall from the lumen.
AB - Pneumatosis intestinalis in association with connective tissue diseases is an unusual combination whose pathogenesis is not yet understood. Furthermore, steroid medication, often used to treat these diseases, may itself cause pneumatosis. Three cases of scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and amyioidosis in association with pneumatosis and without prior steroid therapy are presented. The small vessel occlusive pathologic processes in these diseases may cause focal areas of mucosal ischemia resulting in small, perhaps translent ulcerations that allow gas to enter the gut wall from the lumen.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-197612000-00005
DO - 10.1097/00007611-197612000-00005
M3 - Article
C2 - 1019666
AN - SCOPUS:0017057805
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 69
SP - 1536
EP - 1538
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 12
ER -