“…Instead, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is rarely used for diagnosis. Abdominopelvic US and CT examinations do not allow seeing the normal epiploic appendices, unless there is surrounding intraperitoneal fluid [22]. In cases of acute epiploic appendagitis, US evaluation shows, in the patient's area of maximal tenderness, the presence of a small (2-4 cm in maximal diameter) rounded or ovoid, noncompressible, and hyperechoic mass adherent to the colonic wall, without internal blood flow on color or power Doppler studies, frequently surrounded by a subtle hypoechoic line [11, 16, 22, 23].…”