Fig. 8
From: Diverticulitis: a comprehensive review with usual and unusual complications
Intestinal obstruction in a 79-year-old male secondary to diverticulitis. a Axial contrast-enhanced CT of a 75-year-old man presenting with abdominal pain and distention reveals a diverticulitis with the appearance of a inflamed diverticulum and pericolonic fat stranding (arrow) in the transverse colon. Bowel segments proximal to the localization of diverticulitis is dilated. b Axial CT performed 2-months after the first CT reveals thickening of the colonic wall (arrow) leading to intestinal obstruction