1. CT imaging of acute E. Coli-related colitis
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Megan Bell, John J. Morgan, and Michael A. Sadler
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Pancolitis ,Abdominal pain ,Disease ,Escherichia coli O157 ,Gastroenterology ,Foodborne Diseases ,Spinacia oleracea ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Colitis ,Escherichia coli Infections ,Anatomy, Cross-Sectional ,business.industry ,Outbreak ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,Diarrhea ,Food Microbiology ,Emergency Medicine ,Bloody diarrhea ,medicine.symptom ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business - Abstract
Patients with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea often present in the acute setting to the emergency department for evaluation. After the appropriate clinical assessment, cross-sectional imaging is often utilized to evaluate for the severity of the disease. Although a wide spectrum of findings may be seen, diffuse colonic mural thickening, consistent with pancolitis, is most common. We report an Escherichia coli 0157:H7-related pancolitis in a patient with spinach intake linked to the recent outbreak.
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- 2007
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