Pneumoperitoneum - iatrogenic

Case contributed by Yaïr Glick , 14 Sep 2018
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Ian Bickle, 23 Nov 2019

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was changed:

Scout view: Large amount of pneumoperitoneum, roughly oval in shape, with outlined falciform ligament giving the appearances of football sign and falciform ligament sign.

Lucent right paravertebral streak from L1/L2 to S1 - pneumoretroperitoneum?

Streaks of gas in the pelvis.

Surgical clips projected onover the sigmoid colon.

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