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Small bowel obstructions secondary to bezoars
Serife Ulusan1, Zafer Koç, Nurkan Törer
1Department of Radiology Başkent University Adana Teaching and Medical Research Center, Adana, Turkey. sulusan@hotmail.com
Background:
We aimed to present our experience on computed tomography (CT) findings of small bowel obstruction due to bezoar impaction.
Methods:
CT scans of seven patients (3 males, 4 females, age range; 30-93 years) who were diagnosed as small bowel obstruction due to bezoars were reviewed.
Results:
In each patient, an intraluminal mass with a mottled gas pattern on CT enabled specific preoperative diagnosis of bezoars, and postoperative changes such as anastomotic lines and afferent-efferent loops.
Conclusion:
CT imaging is useful in making the diagnosis of bezoar associated with small bowel obstruction, and greatly helps assessing the detailed abdominal anatomy.
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