Pneumatosis intestinalis. Its occurrence in the immunologically compromised child
P. K. Kleinman, P. W. Brill and P. Winchester
Four immunologically compromised children, two with acute lymphoblastic
leukemia who received immunosuppressive therapy, one with X-linked
agammaglobulinemia, and one with chronic granulomatous disease of
childhood, displayed both the pulmonary and gastrointestinal mechanisms
that led to pneumatosis intestinalis. Consideration of both the basic
disease and the immediate clinical circumstances that surround the
development of intramural air are helpful in the determination of the
significance of pneumatosis intestinalis in individual patients.
