Small Bowel Volvulus Complicated by Bowel Infarction

Small Bowel Volvulus Complicated by Bowel Infarction

Teaching Point: Torsion of a segment of the small bowel and its mesentery, together with closed loop obstruction and absent enhancement of paper-thin small bowel walls, is an alarm sign for small bowel volvulus complicated by acute bowel infarction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Birgitt Janssens, Adelard De Backer, Filip Vanhoenacker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2022-04-01
Series:Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
Subjects:
abdominal computed tomography
small bowel volvulus
small bowel infarction
Online Access:https://www.jbsr.be/articles/2789

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