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Confusing appearance of a dilated jejunal loop
Author(s) -
Pozderac Rodney V.,
Doust Bruce D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870060308
Subject(s) - medicine , differential diagnosis , ultrasound , loop (graph theory) , radiology , abdominal ultrasound , pathology , mathematics , combinatorics
A case report is presented concerning a patient with a dilated loop of bowel that was misinterpreted on ultrasound examination. Attention is called to this entity as part of the differential diagnosis of an intra‐abdominal fluid collection demonstrated by ultrasound.