Small-bowel obstruction associated with sigmoid diverticulitis: CT evaluation in 16 patients.
case_series · Level IV
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify acute sigmoid diverticulitis as a cause of small-bowel obstruction and to describe the CT findings. CT scanning enabled accurate preoperative diagnosis of colonic diverticulitis as the cause of the small-bowel obstruction, thereby allowing proper management and surgical planning.
Medical subject headings
- Diverticulitis, Colonic
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Intestine, Small
- Sigmoid Diseases
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed