Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: CT angiography with multi-planar reformatting.
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical emergency, which carries a significant mortality. CT Angiography is an important non-invasive diagnostic tool, which can be used to plan subsequent endovascular or surgical management. The cases presented demonstrate that a meticulous and systematic approach to image interpretation is necessary, in particular, to detect focal sites of contrast extravasation and small pseudoaneurysms.
Steiner
Kate
K
Department of Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. kate.steiner@virgin.net
Gollub
Frank
F
Stuart
Sam
S
Papadopoulou
Anthie
A
Woodward
Nick
N
D000208:Acute Disease; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*