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Gastric pneumatosis associated with duodenal stenosis and malrotation

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Pneumatosis intestinalis, which is linear or cystic gas within the bowel wall, is usually found in premature babies in association with necrotizing enterocolitis. Gastric pneumatosis defined as intramural gas of the stomach is a rare sign during infancy. We report an infant with Down's syndrome and a duodenal web with obvious gastric pneumatosis.

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  1. Department of Paediatrics, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Shoji Kawano, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Daimon, Takahiro Niizuma, Kihei Terada & Naoki Kataoka

  2. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Yoshinobu Iwamura & Kohji Aoyama

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  1. Shoji Kawano
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  2. Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Received: 20 March 2000 Revised: 3 October 2000 Accepted: 19 March 2001

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Kawano, S., Tanaka, H., Daimon, Y. et al. Gastric pneumatosis associated with duodenal stenosis and malrotation. Pediatric Radiology 31, 656–658 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470100514

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