Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) is a rare disease. It was first described by Du Vernoy in 1793 during a cadaver dissection. Air-filled bubble-like lesions are located in the submucosa or the subserosa of the digestive tract. A 55-year-old Turkish male presented to the emergency department with complaints of recurrent abdominal pain and vomiting. Free air was detected in abdominal x-ray...

Patients with free intraperitoneal air usually undergo emergency surgery. Some of these patients will have no identifiable perforation, for instance those with pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. This is a rare condition characterized by multiple intramural gas cysts in the gastrointestinal tract. The most common symptoms are meteorism, excessive flatulence, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, passage o...

THE AETIOLOGY of pneumatosis intestinalis in most cases is either unknown or open to discussion. Advice and treatment is often a problem. The following case is reported as an example of the group in which recovery was spontaneous. The condition was first described by Du Vernoi in 1738 and much has been written on the subject since then. The various terms that have been used in the past to descr...

Abstract Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI), ‘gas cysts’ in the wall of bowel, is a rare sign that can be found as result many different conditions, ranging from benign and asymptomatic, to life threatening. Its pathogenesis not yet fully understood, patients have PCI are treated heterogeneous manner. Pneumoperitoneum, however, much more commonly seen by General Surgeons, most often occur...

A 60-year-old woman, bedridden in a nursing home because of multisystem atrophy, developed aspiration pneumonia. Coarse crackles were observed in the lung fields, her abdomen was slightly distended, and the bowel sounds were diminished. An abdominal X-ray showed a possible foreign body (arrow head) and pneumatosis intestinalis (arrows) in the ascending colon (Picture A). Computed tomography con...

Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is a very rare condition that is defined as the presence of gas within the subserosal or submucosal layer of the bowel. PI has been described in association with a variety of conditions including gastrointestinal tract disorders, pulmonary diseases, connective tissue disorders, organ transplantation, leukemia, and various immunodeficiency states. We report a rare c...