Crohn disease

Case contributed by Ian Bickle
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Crohn disease. Abdominal pain.

Patient Data

Age: 60 years
Gender: Female
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Fluid-filled dilatation of the small bowel loops with the point of transition in the mid-distal ileum on the left side of the pelvis. A long segment of thickened and hyper-enhancing distal ileum with dilatation of vessels in vasa recta. The ileocecal valve is high in the right paracolic gutter. The colon is of normal caliber.

Additional shorter segment of thickened mid jejunum in the left mid-abdomen.

Cholecystectomy. 

The liver, spleen, bilateral kidneys, and adrenals, pancreas are unremarkable. No sinister bone lesion.

Lung bases are clear. 

 

Case Discussion

Active distal ileal Crohn disease with proximal small bowel obstruction.
 

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