• Online Features  This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Persistence in Children

ARMIN SCHWARTZ, M.D.; ZWI EYAL, M.D., M.Sc.

Am J Dis Child. 1962;104(2):169-171.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Introduction

It is well known that, in adults, postoperative pneumoperitoneum may persist for 1 to 3 weeks.^1-3 Hope and Cramer ⁴ have shown that postoperative pneumoperitoneum disappears much more rapidly in children than in adults. We noticed, however, that in some children postoperative pneumoperitoneum persisted for a longer period than had been found by these authors. In order to determine the frequency with which this occurs we have studied the persistence of free air in the peritoneal cavity in a series of 75 infants and children.

Material and Methods

Our material comprised 75 infants and children under the age of 10 years.

In 33 cases, 50-80 cc. of air was injected into the peritoneal cavity during herniotomy. The patients in the remaining 42 cases had been subjected to laparotomy for various diseases.

The first roentgenogram of the abdomen was obtained from 2 to 24 hours after the completion of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations

Armin Schwartz, M.D., Hadassah Rothschild, University Hospital, Hadassah Medical Organization, P.O.B. 499, Jerusalem.; From the Diagnostic X-Ray and Surgical Departments of Hadassah Rothschild University Hospital.

Footnotes

CiteULike    Connotea    Delicious    Digg    Facebook    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?