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Radiology, Vol 159, 343-344, Copyright © 1986 by Radiological Society of North America
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DM Panicek, DJ Paquet, KG Clark, EJ Urrutia and RE Brinsko
Hepatic parenchymal gas was demonstrated by computed tomography in a boy who had sustained severe blunt trauma to the abdomen 12 hours earlier. There was no clinical evidence of infection. Although previous reports have suggested that hepatic parenchymal gas indicates the presence of infection, such gas may also be a manifestation of severe blunt trauma without infection.
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