[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.
Serviço de Radiologia, Hospital Militar Principal, Lisboa.
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Carvalho
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