Small bowel edema: mosaic pattern.
We report an unusual radiographic appearance of small bowel submucosal edema produced by obstruction from metastatic colorectal carcinoma. The distinctive muscosal pattern of raised polygonal plaques is the same mosaic pattern described in the colon and referred to as "urticaria." This mosaic pattern in the small bowel has not previously been reported.
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Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque 87131.
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Parker
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D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D004487:Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography