А. А. Kadyan. Intestinal air cysts (Pneumotosis cystoides intestinorum hominis). "Russian Surgical Archives" 1902, book 6

Abstract

Once operating on a patient with suspected tuberculosis with a peritoneal tumor or chronic stenosis of the intestine, the author was pushed into the following picture. Ascites. The serous cover of the small intestines, devoid of normal color and shine, is covered with a mass of soy tubercles, among which are visible bubbles and blisters, as large as plums, partly hanging on thin legs, made with gas, falling off when punctured. Such a picture, unevenly distributed over different loops of the small intestines, is weak on the peritoneum of the large ones.

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