Imaging Reveals Bowel Abnormalities in Patients with COVID-19 (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Imaging Reveals Bowel Abnormalities in Patients with COVID-19

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Coronal CT of the abdomen and pelvis with IV contrast in a 47-year-old man with abdominal tenderness demonstrates typical findings of mesenteric ischemia and infarction, including pneumatosis intestinalis (arrow) and non-enhancing bowel (*). Frank discontinuity of a thickened loop of small bowel in the pelvis (thin arrow) is in keeping with perforation.

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