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Report of a Case

JOHN D. OLSON, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1954;68(6):899-906.

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PNEUMATOSIS cystoides intestinalis, also known as gas cysts of the intestine, is considered to be a rare pathological condition. Bang,¹ in 1876, first published a report of its occurrence in a human being, and it has been recognized to occur in swine for a number of years, usually associated with a catarrhal enteritis. There have been fewer than 50 cases recorded in the American literature, the most recent being reported by Appleby² and also by Sherwin and Messe.³ Finney,⁴ in 1908, reported the first American case. Jackson,⁵ in 1940, presented the 4th case in this country, bringing the total number of recorded cases to 172 at that time. The condition is rarely diagnosed before operation. Reverdin,⁶ in 1924, diagnosed the first case confirmed by surgery. In 1949 the first American case was diagnosed by x-ray study, preoperatively, by Gazin, Brooke, Lerner, and Price.⁷ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
FORT SMITH, ARK.

Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Chicago, Dec. 5, 1953.

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