[Acute diverticulitis. Primary diagnosis with ultrasonography in 4 cases presenting urologic disease (diverticulitis with urologic symptoms)].
Four men with clinical signs of left ureteric colic, bladder infection, prostatitis and sigmoid colon tumor with colo-vesical fistula, respectively, were echographically found to have very suggestive signs of acute diverticulitis. US suspicion was confirmed by clinical course, follow up examinations or surgery.
Carvalho
J P
JP
Serviço de Radiologia, Hospital Militar Principal, Lisboa.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology