Small Bowel Diverticula

Published on 19/07/2015 by admin

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 Relatively inexpensive and well tolerated

• Enteroclysis

image Most sensitive, more expensive, less comfortable, identifies smaller diverticula
• CT with enterography

image May be more difficult to distinguish diverticula from bowel segments
image Multiplanar reformations can help recognition
image Extraluminal gas, fluid, inflammatory infiltration = diverticulitis
image Portal venous gas may result from septic mesenteric or portal vein thrombophlebitis (rather than ischemia)

TOP DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES

• Crohn disease
• Intestinal scleroderma
• Abdominal foreign bodies
• Meckel diverticulum

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