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Spontaneous dissection of air into the transverse mesocolon during double-contrast barium enema
K C Cho1, M Z Simmons, S R Baker
1Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Intramural perforation of the colon proximal to the rectosigmoid is a rare complication of the barium enema examination. We present a case in which air and barium entered the wall of the transverse colon, and then dissected through the transverse mesocolon during double-contrast barium enema in an asymptomatic patient with no known underlying colonic disease.