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Mesenteric panniculitis presenting with acute non-occlusive colonic ischemia

Florian Amor1, Mohsen Farsad, Romano Polato

  • 1Division of Internal Medicine, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Lorenz Böhler Street 5, Bolzano 39100, Italy. christian.wiedermann@asbz.it.

International Archives of Medicine
|June 24, 2011
PubMed
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Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) may not detect abnormal uptake in mesenteric panniculitis, a condition to consider for unexplained ischemic colitis. This imaging modality has a limited diagnostic role in such cases.

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