caa a22 4500 477079717 CHVBK 20180405111446.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01507741 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01507741 Pneumatosis intestinalis in association with sigmoid volvulus: Value of lung windows during abdominal computed tomography [Elektronische Daten] [Clayton Yamada, Richard Sacknoff, Robert Novelline] An 80-year-old man presented with progressive left-sided abdominal pain and distention. His abdominal plain radiograph revealed a focally dilated, redundant loop of sigmoid colon, having a mottled appearance. A computed tomographic (CT) scan with soft tissue settings showed no evidence of pneumatosis; however, with lung window settings [mean, —600 Hounsfield units (HU); width, 1000 HU], intramural pockets of air were seen in the bowel wall. The pneumatosis was presumed secondary to recurrent sigmoid volvulus. The utility of CT lung windows to evaluate the gastrointestinal tract in patients with acute abdominal conditions cannot be overemphasized. American Society of Emergency Radiology, 1996 Computed tomography nationallicence Pneumatosis intestinalis nationallicence Volvulus nationallicence Yamada Clayton Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut Sacknoff Richard Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut Novelline Robert Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut Emergency Radiology Springer-Verlag 3/4(1996-07-01), 198-201 1070-3004 3:4<198 1996 3 10140 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01507741 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01507741 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yamada Clayton Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sacknoff Richard Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Novelline Robert Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Emergency Radiology Springer-Verlag 3/4(1996-07-01), 198-201 1070-3004 3:4<198 1996 3 10140 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer