Thumbprinting | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
Oct 26, 2022 · Thumbprinting is a radiographic sign of large bowel wall thickening, usually caused by edema, related to an infective or inflammatory process (colitis). The normal haustra become thickened at regular intervals appearing like thumbprints projecting into the aerated lumen.
Ischemic colitis | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
Jan 3, 2022 · Ischemic colitis refers to inflammation of the colon secondary to vascular insufficiency and ischemia. It is sometimes considered under the same spectrum as intestinal ischemia. The severity and consequences of the disease are highly variable.
Ischaemic colitis | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
Jan 3, 2022 · Ischaemic colitis refers to inflammation of the colon secondary to vascular insufficiency and ischaemia. It is sometimes considered under the same spectrum as intestinal ischaemia . The severity and consequences of the disease are highly variable.
Ulcerative colitis - thumbprinting and lead pipe signs
This patient had a known history of ulcerative colitis. The thumbprinting represents wall edema and likely represents more acute (active) disease, with lead pipe appearance more distally representing chronic disease.
Clostridioides difficile colitis | Radiology Reference Article ...
Aug 31, 2024 · Clostridioides difficile colitis, also known as pseudomembranous colitis and previously known as Clostridium difficile colitis 10, is a common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and increasingly encountered in sick hospitalized patients. If undiagnosed and untreated, it continues to have high mortality.
Toxic megacolon | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
Jan 14, 2024 · Toxic megacolon is an acute complication seen in both types of inflammatory bowel disease and, less commonly, in infectious colitis and other types of colitis. It is due to fulminant colitis, which causes loss of the neurogenic tone of the colon, leading to severe dilatation and increasing the risk of perforation.
Infectious colitis | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
Jan 28, 2024 · On imaging consider other forms of colitis dependent on the clinical situation, which includes colitis from other causes: inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn disease. ulcerative colitis. ischemic colitis: usually involves watershed areas, and …
Thumbprinting and accordion sign | Radiology Case
Classic radiologic features of severe colitis, here considered infectious in origin due to Clostridioides difficile.
Inflammatory bowel disease | Radiology Reference Article
Aug 26, 2023 · Indeterminate colitis is added to the list and represents ~6% of inflammatory bowel disease cases 2. It has features both on imaging and histologically that overlap both Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis.
Pseudomembranous colitis | Radiology Case - Radiopaedia.org
This patient elegantly demonstrates a pancolitis with marked mucosal edema resulting in thumbprinting. The diagnosis of Clostridioides difficile colitis was confirmed by isolation of the toxin on a stool sample.
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