OBJECTIVE.The
CONCLUSION.In trauma patients with hypotension, early abdominal CT may show diffuse abnormalities of the small bowel due to prolonged hypoperfusion-shock bowel-with a normal appearing colon. In this study, the CT findings of shock bowel were reversible and were not associated with clinical symptoms.
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