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Fig. 14 | World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Fig. 14

From: Diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for gastrointestinal pathology: state of the art from basics to advanced

Fig. 14

A 14-year-old boy presented with pain in the right iliac fossa of 1 month duration associated with diarrhoea. His abdomen was soft and tender at the right iliac fossa. POCUS (a) using a high-frequency linear probe of the right iliac fossa showed a thickened hyperechoic non-compressible small bowel (arrowheads). The bowel layers could not be seen. Crohn’s disease was suspected. CT with intravenous contrast (b) showed a thickened constricted terminal ileum suggestive of Crohn's disease (yellow arrow)

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