Suppurative thrombophlebitis of the portal-mesenteric venous system occurring in setting abdominal inflammatory and infectious processes is a serious condition that can lead to septic shock, bowel ischemia, hepatic abscess, death if unrecognized. Diagnosis often delayed because symptoms are aspecific pain at primary site infection may be mild. Contrast-enhanced CT scans diagnose both portal thr...

PURPOSE Acute mesenteric arterial occlusion is an abdominal catastrophe that carries high morbidity and mortality rates. Current diagnostic methods, however, lack sensitivity and specificity and do not provide information about the viability of the affected bowel. Early diagnosis and intervention would improve patient outcomes and survival rates. The basic electrical rhythm (BER) is the omnipre...

PURPOSE To analyze the CT findings in 20 cases of complicated small bowel obstruction with surgically and histopathologically proven small bowel ischemia, caused by extrinsic venous outflow obstruction of the affected bowel loops and to discuss the question, if bowel wall thickening, abnormal bowel wall enhancement, ascites and mesenteric stranding correlate with the severity of bowel wall dama...