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Pneumatosis intestini and pneumoperitoneum in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Pneumatosis intestini and pneumoperitoneum can originate after infection or gastrointestinal obstruction. Very rarely this condition develops as a random event in patients with collagen disorders and vasculitis, acute and chronic graft versus host disease and various immunodeficiency with no clinical impact. A patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who developed pneumatosis intestini and pneumoperitoneum with no clinical evidence is reported on. According to the clinical data we assume that the etiology of this condition in the patient is multifactorial: leukaemia, chemotherapy, corticosteroids, sepsis and/or fungal infection. Correlation between patient clinical status and radiological evidence of pneumatosis peritonei is crucial to obtaining the right picture of clinical situation.

leukaemia; pneumoperitoneum; pneumatosis intestinalis

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