Medical Must-See: When a patient’s small bowel starts torquing
CT is the most reliable diagnostic tool for detecting the rare condition, say her doctors.
A distended, painful abdomen and ‘whirlpool-like’ distribution of the small intestine on CT led Chinese doctors to this “extremely rare” case of diffuse intestinal lipomatosis.
Their 58-year-old patient presented to ED with sudden and intense lower abdominal pain, following two days of swelling, nausea, vomiting and reduced defecation.
