Avtor/Urednik | Niyyati, Mahtab; Varga, Gyula; Moro, Zsuzsanna | |
Naslov | Sigmoid diverticulitis: a case report | |
Prevedeni naslov | Sigmoidni diverticulitis: prikaz primera | |
Tip | članek | |
Vir | Radiol Oncol | |
Vol. in št. | Letnik 35, št. 2 | |
Leto izdaje | 2001 | |
Obseg | str. 89-93 | |
Jezik | eng | |
Abstrakt | Background. Diverticulitis could be a challenging diagnosis in a patient presenting with acute abdomen. Case report. Our case presents a patient with acute abdomen in whom an abdominal ultrasound examination showed a mass with internal reflexes continued to the sigmoid colon and a diagnosis of diverticulitis was suspected. Later abdominal helical CT proved it to be diverticulitis. Conclusion. The case emphasises the importance of ultrasound as a first line imaging modality for detecting bowel pathology. | |
Izvleček | Izhodišča. Eden od vzrokov akutnega abdomna je diverticulitis, ki ga je včasih težko prepoznati. Prikaz primera. Predstavljamo primer bolnice z akutnim abdomnom. Ultrazvočna preiskava je pokazala mase z notranjimi odboji, ki so se širili k sigmoidnemu delu debelega črevesa. Sumili smo, da ima bolnica diverticulitis. Kasneje smo diagnozo potrdili s CT preiskavo. Zaključki. Opisan primer poudarja pomembnost ultrazvočne preiskave, ki predstavlja začetno metodo pri ugotavljanju črevesne patologije. | |
Deskriptorji | SIGMOID DISEASES DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC MIDDLE AGE COLONOSCOPY TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED |