CT evaluation of bowel wall enhancement in pneumatosis intestinalis: preventing non-therapeutic laparotomies.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of bowel wall enhancement for diagnosing concomitant bowel ischemia in patients with parietal pneumatosis (PI) diagnosed at abdominal CT.

Materials And Methods: From January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2021, 226 consecutive patients who presented with PI on abdominal CT from any bowel segment were included. Variables at the time of the CT were retrospectively extracted from medical charts.

Preoperative prediction of inadvertent enterotomy during adhesive small bowel obstruction surgery using combination of CT features.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the preoperative CT features that are associated with inadvertent enterotomy (IE) during adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) surgery.

Methods: From January 2015 to December 2019, all patients with ASBO who underwent an abdominal CT were reviewed. Abdominal CT were retrospectively reviewed by two radiologists with a consensus read in case of disagreement.