title: [A woman with acute upper abdominal pain].
abstract: A 42-year-old woman came to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. CT-scan showed an isolated dissection of the A. mesenterica superior and signs of ischaemic colitis. The patient was treated with endovascular stent placement in the artery and partial small bowel resection.
authors.affiliation: Medisch Centrum Haaglanden, Den Haag, Afd. Radiologie, the Netherlands. t_urlings@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Thijs A J
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Urlings
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: van Weel
authors.forename: Edwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van der Linden
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D017091:Colitis, Ischemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017538:Mesenteric Artery, Superior; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome