[A woman with acute upper abdominal pain]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011;155(27):A3571.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

A 42-year-old woman came to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. CT-scan showed an isolated dissection of the A. mesenterica superior and signs of ischaemic colitis. The patient was treated with endovascular stent placement in the artery and partial small bowel resection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / diagnosis
  • Abdominal Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Abdominal Pain / etiology*
  • Adult
  • Aortic Dissection / complications*
  • Aortic Dissection / diagnosis
  • Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Dissection / surgery
  • Colitis, Ischemic / complications*
  • Colitis, Ischemic / diagnosis
  • Colitis, Ischemic / diagnostic imaging
  • Colitis, Ischemic / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mesenteric Artery, Superior*
  • Stents
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome