CASE 8
ANSWER: Necrotizing enterocolitis with perforation of the terminal ileum.
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The plain abdominal film shows air in the portal vein, air in the bowel walls, and a large
pneumoperitoneum [subdiaphragmatic free air, perihepatic free air, double wall sign (blue
arrows), triangle sign (green arrows), and falciform ligament (red arrow)].
 

pneumatosis intestinalis
In the right lower abdomen there is air in the bowel walls (pneumatosis intestinalis).

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