Mesenteric ischemia in a patient with Buerger's disease: MDCT findings.
Buerger's disease is a non-arteriosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory vascular occlusive disease, primarily affecting medium and small sized arteries of limbs. Mesenteric vascular involvement of this entity is a rarely seen manifestation. In this report, we present a case of Buerger's disease in which intestinal involvement was diagnosed by means of multi-detector CT.
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Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey. bturkbey@yahoo.com
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008641:Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications*