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- Title
Pain and chronic diarrhea in an elderly cancer patient.
- Authors
KALOGERINIS, PETER T.; POULOS, JOHN E.; DAIGNAULT, THOMAS H.; ROBERTS, LEROY
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 77-year-old female cancer patient suffering from pneumatosis intestinalis (PI). The patient was presented in the hospital's emergency department with chronic bloody diarrhea along with abdominal pain. The author states that PI can be managed through conservative therapies such as antibiotics and octreotide for nonsurgical patients.
- Subjects
INTESTINAL disease treatment; ABDOMINAL radiography; ABDOMINAL pain; DIARRHEA; LARGE intestine; SMALL intestine; INTESTINAL diseases; TOMOGRAPHY
- Publication
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (Haymarket Media, Inc.), 2011, Vol 24, Issue 8, p61
- ISSN
1547-1896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1097/01720610-201108000-00015