Abstract:Acute diverticulitis is a frequent complication in patients with colonic diverticulosis. The diagnosis is based on the clinical presentation, biological markers and imaging. Abdominal ultrasonography is, in many centers, the first examination in patients presenting with abdominal pain. Bowel ultrasonography has the advantage of being an inexpensive, nonionizing, readily available and repeatable examining method, but needs an experienced operator, and it is, thus, not widely used in clinical practice. We presen… Show more
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