A 56-year-old Diabetic Man with Acute Epigastric Pain
Journal Title: Advanced Journal of Emergency Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
KEY QUESTIONS: • What are the pathologic findings in figure 1? • What are the differential diagnoses? • What is the diagnosis? LEARNING POINTS: Pathologic findings There is air in the wall/lumen of the gallbladder seen as multiple round or linear lucencies (yellow arrows in figure 2A and 2C). Mural enhancement of gallbladder is not seen in this oral and intravenous contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan. The gallbladder wall is irregular, and intraluminal membranes can be seen as irregular intraluminal linear and soft-tissue densities (black arrows in figure 2C). No contrast material can be seen inside the gallbladder. An abnormal loculated and encapsulated fluid attenuation adjacent to the gallbladder consistent with a pericholecystic abscess is another finding in this imaging [shown in figure 2D as (a)]. The gallstones which are seen as hyperdensities within the gallbladder lumen (shown with blue arrows in figure 2B and 2D), pericholecystic fat stranding which is seen as increased soft-tissue density in the pericholecystic fat (red arrow in figure 2B), and gallbladder distention are the other important imaging findings.
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Mehran Sotoodehnia, Arash Safaie
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- DOI 10.22114/ajem.v0i0.49
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