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Spontaneous intramural small bowel haemorrhage: Importance of non-contrast CT
- Source :
- Clinical Radiology. 52:378-380
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1997.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to evaluate the abdominal CT findings in patients with spontaneous intramural small bowel haemorrhage. We retrospectively reviewed the abdominal CT scans of six patients with known intramural small bowel haemorrhage. All of the patients had an underlying coagulopathy. All six patients underwent CT examinations without oral or intravenous contrast media. All six non-contrast CT scans showed hyperattenuation of the involved bowel segments, with thickened and dilated proximal small bowel. Therefore, patients who are clinically at risk for intramural small bowel haemorrhage should undergo a non-contrast CT scan of the abdomen prior to the routine oral and intravenous contrast-enhanced scan. In most cases the non-contrast scan will provide definitive diagnostic information which may not be evident from the contrast-enhanced scan alone.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Diagnostic information
Non contrast ct
Abdominal ct
medicine
Coagulopathy
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
In patient
Duodenal Diseases
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Hematoma
business.industry
Vascular disease
Retrospective cohort study
Jejunal Diseases
General Medicine
Blood Coagulation Disorders
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Abdomen
Female
Radiology
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00099260
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....331accbd7338940b026969ef364ba46b