Fig. 9From: Imaging the postoperative patient: long-term complications of gastrointestinal surgery a, b Abdominal CT of a patient with obstructive symptoms. There is diffuse fluid dilation of small-bowel loops (arrowheads in b) proximal to a small segment of dilated small bowel incarcerated at the hernial sac (arrow in a). The presence of fat stranding and a moderate amount of free fluid at the site (curved arrows in a, b) should raise suspicion of a strangulated herniaBack to article page