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Fig. 2 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 2

From: Water enema multidetector CT technique and imaging of diverticulitis and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases

Fig. 2

A 45-year-old woman with known, symptomatic colon diverticular disease, investigated with WE-MDCT because of poor patient tolerance to colonoscopy, to exclude signs of acute diverticulitis. The elongated sigmoid colon shows mild, diffuse mural thickening with homogeneous attenuation (a) and some sub-centimetre diverticula (detail in b), without perivisceral fat stranding, signs of perforation, or abscess collections. Good distension of the upstream colon is seen in (c), without further abnormalities

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