Fig. 7

A 24-year-old woman presented with 1 day duration of abdominal pain, distension, vomiting, and constipation. She had a caesarian section 7 months ago. The abdomen was distended, soft, and non-tender. POCUS (a) using small print convex array probe (3–5 MHZ) showed active dilated ileal loops (IL) which was confirmed by the high-frequency linear probe (10–12 Mhz) (arrowheads) (b), PE = posterior enhancement artefact. Follow-up POCUS 12 h later using the linear probe (c) showed an increased amount of intraperitoneal fluid (F) between the bowel loops (B) and the abdominal fascia (yellow arrows). The patient underwent laparoscopic surgery (d) to release the adhesions (black arrow)