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. 2015 Apr-Jun;28(2):296-298.

Epiploic appendagitis: a non-surgical cause of acute abdomen

Karolina Akinosoglou  1 , Pantelis Kraniotis  2 , Konstantinos Thomopoulos  3 , Stelios F Assimakopoulos  1
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Epiploic appendagitis: a non-surgical cause of acute abdomen

Karolina Akinosoglou et al. Ann Gastroenterol. 2015 Apr-Jun.
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Figure 1
Contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans of the patient with right lower quadrant abdominal pain (A: coronal reformat, B: axial) and the patient with left lower quadrant abdominal pain (C: coronal reformat, D: axial). CT demonstrated the presence of oval-shaped, fat density paracolonic lesions (white circles) with a high-attenuation central “dot” (white arrow), located at the antimesenteric edge of the ascending colon for the first patient (A, B) and the descending colon for the second patient (C, D), respectively. Inflammatory changes of the adjacent pericolonic fat were also detected, more prominent in the second patient
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