title: Acute Infectious and Inflammatory Enterocolitides.
abstract: Infectious and inflammatory enterocolitides can present with an acute abdomen. The most common entities are ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease, and Clostridium difficile colitis. This article reviews the clinical and imaging findings of patients who present acutely with infectious and inflammatory enterocolitides. The acute abdomen can be defined as the sudden onset (generally <24 hours) of severe localized or generalized abdominal pain that prompts the patient to seek immediate medical assistance; most often a visit to the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Section of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Institute, Digestive Disease Institute and Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, L10, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. Electronic address: bakerm@ccf.org.
authors.forename: Mark E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004760:Enterocolitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007422:Intestines / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
keywords: Colitis; Crohn disease; Enteritis; Infectious; Inflammatory; Pseudomembranous colitis; Typhlitis; Ulcerative colitis