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Recognizing emphysematous gastritis

Weaver A, Weintraub R, Smith B

JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2019

Abstract

Emphysematous gastritis is a rare disease caused by gas-forming organisms. This article describes how a CT scan and aggressive IV drug therapy helped clinicians beat the odds for a patient with this high-mortality disease.

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