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Ultrasonographic findings in two patients with acute diverticulitis of the left colon are described. Echographic identification of diverticula and thickened (> 4 mm) hypoechoic bowel wall were common findings. The final diagnosis was confirmed by contrast enema and colonoscopy. Patients had clinical
Primary resection is the treatment of choice for diverticulitis of the colon with perforation and generalized peritonitis. Although there has been controversy concerning the management of the bowel ends after resection, for the last 20 years immediate anastomosis has been gaining increasing support.
Small bowel diverticulitis is a rare cause of an acute abdomen. Originating from acquired diverticula of the jejunum, less often of the ileum, or Meckel diverticulum, the symptoms are nonspecific, simulating other acute inflammatory disorders, such as appendicitis, cholecystitis or colonic
Acute colonic diverticulitis is usually suspected by typical clinical findings supported by laboratory tests. Investigations of the colon are usually delayed 1 to 2 months until the acute situation is resolved. We studied 53 patients with an initial clinical diagnosis of acute diverticulitis by
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to evaluate MRI as a diagnostic tool in patients with suspected acute sigmoid diverticulitis. Furthermore, we sought to develop an optimal imaging protocol in these patients.
METHODS
Eleven patients with suspected acute diverticulitis were included in the
Six cases of diverticulitis were studied by means of pelvic computed tomography (CT) and contrast enema. CT is effective in defining the intramural and extracolonic component of diverticulitis; abscess formation in the extracolonic space resulted in consistent changes in the contour of the opacified
Purpose
To report a rapid endogenous fulminating panophthalmitis from
Clostridium perfringens in a patient with
diverticulitis and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
A 61-year-old female with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, active proliferativeTo assess the value of sonography as the initial imaging procedure in patients suspected of having acute diverticulitis of the colon, we evaluated the sonograms of 71 patients who had clinical signs and symptoms of the disease. Identification of diverticula on sonograms was taken as evidence of
BACKGROUND
Acute colonic diverticulitis is a well-known surgical emergency, which occurs in about 10 percent of patients known for diverticulosis.
UNASSIGNED
The case of a 77-year-old woman is reported, with past history of abdominoperineal resection with end-colostomy for low rectal adenocarcinoma,
In 2006, while admitted in our hospital for surgical treatment of recurrent diverticulitis, a 54-year-old man was found to have an adenocarcinoma arising within a colonic diverticulum. Computed tomography, during this episode of diverticulitis, showed a thickened wall of the sigmoid and inflammatory
Radiographically, colonic urticaria presents a non-specific pattern of submucosal edema. Previously unreported diverticulitis with colonic distention resulting in the flat, polygonal, mosaic pattern typical of this entity is described.
The clinical course of sigmoidovesical and ileovesical fistula due to rupture of colonic diverticulitis is reported. The patient, a 41-year-old male, who had been suffering from intestinocutaneous fistula for 16 months since drainage of abdominal abscess had chief complaints of cloudy urine and
OBJECTIVE
To retrospectively determine the computed tomographic (CT) signs associated with diverticulitis or colon cancer, and to prospectively apply these signs in the differentiation of these diseases.
METHODS
Fifty-eight CT scans in cases of proved diverticulitis (n = 27) or colon cancer (n = 31)
OBJECTIVE
Colonic diverticula are saccules made of colonic mucosa and submucosa that herniate from the colonic lumen through the muscular layer of the wall where straight vessels penetrate. Diverticula are localized in the sigmoid colon in 95% of cases. Bacteria pooling in the lumen may cause lumen
The incidence of acute colonic diverticulitis (ACD) is increasing. To allow rational therapeutic decisions to be made, a timely diagnosis is required. The feasibility of "on-admission-MRI" to establish the diagnosis has not yet been studied. Therefore, a prospective observational study was carried