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Acute epiploic appendagitis in hernia sac: CT appearance.

Singh AK, Gervais D, Rhea J, Mueller P, Noveline RA

Division of Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Wh 270, Massachusetts General hospital, 55 Fruit street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. asingh1@partners.org

We describe an unusual cause of acute abdomen due to acute epiploicappendagitis located within an incisional hernia sac. The contrast-enhanced CT showed an oval fat density structure with surrounding inflammation in the transverse mesocolon. The contrast-enhanced CT findings of the inflammation of appendices epiploicae of the transverse colon were diagnostic in this case.

Published 2 September 2005 in Emerg Radiol, 11(4): 226-7.
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