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pneumoperitoneum

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Pneumoperitoneum is pneumatosis (abnormal presence of air or other gas) in the peritoneal cavity, a potential space within the abdominal cavity. The most common cause is a perforated abdominal organ, generally from a perforated peptic ulcer, although any part of the bowel may perforate from a benign ulcer, tumor or abdominal trauma. A perforated appendix rarely causes a pneumoperitoneum.

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Frontal chest X-ray. The air bubble below the right hemidiaphragm (on the left of the image) is a pneumoperitoneum.

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Health references

ICD-10
K66.8 — Other specified disorders of peritoneum
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine (ICD-10-CM · MedlinePlus). Not medical advice.

Research

12,182 papers

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Clinical Trials

203 registered

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
disease
Subclass of
emphysema
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Commons category
Pneumoperitoneum
health specialty
gastroenterology
NCI Thesaurus ID
C99012
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Causes
  • Spontaneous pneumoperitoneum
  • Diagnosis
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Terminology
  • See also
  • References
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Pneumoperitoneum is pneumatosis (abnormal presence of air or other gas) in the peritoneal cavity, a potential space within the abdominal cavity. The most common cause is a perforated abdominal organ, generally from a perforated peptic ulcer, although any part of the bowel may perforate from a benign ulcer, tumor or abdominal trauma. A perforated appendix rarely causes a pneumoperitoneum.

Spontaneous pneumoperitoneum is a rare case that is not caused by an abdominal organ rupture. This is also called an idiopathic spontaneous pneumoperitoneum when the cause is not known.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pneumoperitoneum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.