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Small bowel obstruction in the emergency department: MDCT features of common and uncommon causes
- Source :
- Clinical Imaging. 38:580-588
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- Small bowel obstruction is a common condition encountered by the radiologist in the emergency department. Though intestinal adhesions and obstructed hernias are the most common causes of acute small bowel obstruction, a variety of uncommon and rare conditions can cause acute and subacute bowel obstruction. Imaging plays a key role in the workup of bowel obstruction by identifying the cause, level, and degree of bowel obstruction. In this article, we present a comprehensive review of the multi-detector computed tomography features of common and uncommon causes of acute and subacute small bowel obstruction.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Hernia
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General surgery
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Computed tomography
Emergency department
urologic and male genital diseases
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Diagnosis, Differential
Bowel obstruction
Acute Disease
Intestine, Small
Multidetector Computed Tomography
Humans
Medicine
Subacute bowel obstruction
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiology
Intestinal adhesions
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
Intestinal Obstruction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08997071
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e8920f34fbd384adddd23250bd17ee2
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinimag.2014.04.010