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Diverticular Disease: Multimedia
Updated: Aug 17, 2009
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 | Media file 1: Diverticulitis acute fatty stranding. |
 | Media file 2: "Thumbprinting" (seen in left mid quadrant) on a plain abdominal radiograph. |
 | Media file 3: "Thumbprinting" (seen in left mid quadrant) on a plain abdominal radiograph (close-up image). |
 | Media file 4: Thickening of the bowel wall in the descending colon due to bowel edema can be seen in the left lower quadrant on this plain abdominal radiograph. Note the narrowed colonic lumen. Note the CT scan images in this article are from the same 62-year-old patient with diverticulitis. |
 | Media file 5: Thickening of the bowel wall in the descending colon due to bowel edema can be seen in the left lower quadrant on this plain abdominal radiograph. Note the narrowed colonic lumen. Note the CT scan images in this article are from the same 62-year-old patient with diverticulitis. |
 | Media file 6: Thickening of the bowel wall in the descending colon due to bowel edema can be seen in the left lower quadrant on this CT scan. Note the narrowed colonic lumen (contrast in the lumen is white). Note the hypodense (dark) spot in the bottom right of the edematous colonic wall; this spot is an abscess that is forming within the bowel wall in a 62-year-old patient with diverticulitis. |
 | Media file 7: Sigmoid diverticulitis in a 50-year-old man with history of diverticulosis and left lower abdominal pain and tenderness. |
 | Media file 8: Thickening of the bowel wall in the descending colon due to bowel edema can be seen in the left lower quadrant on this CT scan. Note the narrowed colonic lumen (contrast in the lumen is white). Note the hypodense (dark) spot in the bottom right of the edematous colonic wall; this spot is an abscess that is forming within the bowel wall in a 62-year-old patient with diverticulitis. |
 | Media file 9: Sigmoid diverticulitis in a 50-year-old man with history of diverticulosis and left lower abdominal pain and tenderness. Media files 9-12 are sections from the same patient. |
 | Media file 10: Sigmoid diverticulitis in a 50-year-old man with history of diverticulosis and left lower abdominal pain and tenderness. Media files 9 and 11-12 are sections from the same patient. |
 | Media file 11: Phlegmon. Sigmoid diverticulitis in a 50-year-old man with history of diverticulosis and left lower abdominal pain and tenderness. Images 11-12 are consecutive sections of the patient in Media files 9-10 showing a phlegmon. |
 | Media file 12: Phlegmon. Sigmoid diverticulitis in a 50-year-old man with history of diverticulosis and left lower abdominal pain and tenderness. Media files 9-11 are sections from the same patient. |
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Keywords
diverticular disease, diverticulitis, acute diverticulitis, diverticulosis, lower gastrointestinal bleeding, lower GI bleeding, Meckel iliac diverticulum, congenital diverticula, peridiverticular inflammation, tenesmus, recurrent urinary tract infections, colovesicular fistulas, pneumaturia, feculent vaginal discharge, low-fiber diet, high fat diets, beefdiets, colonic segmentation, defects in colonic wall strength
