Intramural intestinal gas

What it means

The presence of extraluminal gas within the bowel wall.

In a symptomatic postoperative patient such a finding on plain radiology or computerized tomography (CT) is often viewed as a signal of impending or actual acute mesenteric ischaemia especially when associated with portal venous gas.

Rare diseases that can present with this1

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

Part of the broader category

Also called: Pneumatosis intestinalis