We describe a 64 year old woman with a 3-year history of scleroderma who presented as an emergency with increasing painless abdominal distention. Radiological investigations revealed a pneumoperitoneum in the absence of either visceral perforation or pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. This is only the fourth report of spontaneous benign pneumoperitoneum complicating scleroderma without pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. The possible aetiology of this condition is discussed.
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Natl Inst Med Sci & Nutr Salvador Zubiran, Dept Endoscopy, Mexico City, DF, MexicoNatl Inst Med Sci & Nutr Salvador Zubiran, Dept Endoscopy, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Romano-Munive, Adriana F.
Barreto-Zuniga, Rafael
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Natl Inst Med Sci & Nutr Salvador Zubiran, Dept Endoscopy, Mexico City, DF, MexicoNatl Inst Med Sci & Nutr Salvador Zubiran, Dept Endoscopy, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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Sichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R ChinaSichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R China
Chen, Xiu-Feng
Zhang, Bo
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Sichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R ChinaSichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R China
Zhang, Bo
Chen, Zhi-Xin
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Sichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R ChinaSichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R China
Chen, Zhi-Xin
Chen, Jia-Ping
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Sichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R ChinaSichuan Univ, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, W China Hosp, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, Peoples R China