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Benign pneumatosis intestinalis with pneumoperitoneum and typhlitis: side-effects of drug or disease induced immunosuppression
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  1. Naomi Jane Wright1,
  2. Tom Wiggins1,
  3. Benjamin Michael Stubbs2,
  4. Alec Engledow2
  1. 1Department of General Surgery, University College Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Colorectal Surgery, University College Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Mr Tom Wiggins, thomas.wiggins{at}hotmail.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.07.2011.4518

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    This 42-year old woman had been newly diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma with a background of HIV, hepatitis C and recent tuberculosis (TB) meningitis. She was on HIV antiretrovirals, TB chemotherapy and prednisolone. A routine prechemotherapy chest x-ray showed free air under the diaphragm. CT showed extensive intramural air involving the large bowel and terminal ileum, air in the …

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