title: [A woman with abdominal pain and retroperitoneal free air].
abstract: A 62-year-old female was admitted to the hospital with pain in the lower abdomen and fever since 1 week. A CT scan showed retroperitoneal air around the inferior mesenteric vein and diverticulitis of the sigmoid. We made the diagnosis of intramesocolic diverticular perforation of the sigmoid, a rare phenomenon, and performed an emergency sigmoidectomy.
authors.affiliation: Radboudumc, Nijmegen.
authors.forename: M H B C
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Stenstra
authors.forename: F M G
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Looijmans
authors.forename: J H W
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: de Wilt
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000388:Air; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008642:Mesenteric Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed