Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Puylaert, J B
• Hoekstra, F
• de Vries, B C
• Rutgers, P H
• Lalisang, R I
• Ooms, E C

Titel

Radiation appendicitis: demonstration with graded compression US

Ist Teil von

• Radiology, 1987-08, Vol.164 (2), p.342-342

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In a patient who had received presurgical radiation therapy for extensive rectal carcinoma, ultrasonography with graded compression disclosed an inflamed appendix. The patient had no clinical signs of acute appendicitis. At laparotomy for resection of the rectal carcinoma, the appendix appeared grossly abnormal and was removed. Pathologic examination showed severe radiation enteritis of the appendix. The sonographic appearance of radiation appendicitis closely resembled that of acute appendicitis.