title: Epiploic appendagitis: color Doppler sonographic findings.
abstract: The aim of this study was to analyze the color Doppler sonographic findings in primary epiploic appendagitis. Color Doppler sonographic findings of ten patients with primary epiploic appendagitis were reviewed. The following sonographic features were analyzed: identification of a mass adjacent to the colonic wall; identification of spotty color areas with arterial flow in this mass and detection of abnormalities of the colonic wall adjacent to the infiltrated fatty tissue. A well-delineated hyperechoic mass adjacent to the colonic wall was detected in each patient with sonography. No colonic wall abnormalities were observed nor color Doppler signal in and around the hyperechoic area. Absence of flow at color Doppler sonography is an additional feature of epiploic appendagitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, St Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Danse
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Van Beers
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baudrez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pauls
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Baudrez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kartheuser
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thys
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pringot
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003092:Colitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color