Gastrointestinal radiology

A retrospective angiographic study was done on 19 patients with solitary leiomyomas of the small bowel, one patient with multiple leiomyomas, and two patients with leiomyosarcomas. All patients had gastrointestinal bleeding but no small bow…

A case of endometrioma presenting as a diaphragmatic mass in a 36-year-old woman is described. The computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) findings of the lesion at this rare site of involvement are illustrated, and the pertin…

Two cases of endometriosis of the cecal area are reported. In one case, the endometriosis was located in the appendix causing intussusception into the cecum. Both cases were associated with localizations of endometriosis in the rectosigmoid…

Endometriosis is a common disease which affects the bowel in 12 to 35% of cases. Despite extensive serosal and intramural involvement, the intestinal mucosa usually remains intact and bowel perforation rarely occurs. We describe a patient w…

Small bowel involvement by endometriosis is uncommon and can present as an acute, chronic, or intermittent obstruction. Enteroclysis identifies the site and extent of involvement in patients known to have endometriosis.

The solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS) is an uncommon condition in which a solitary area of discrete ulceration is typically found on the anterior wall of the rectum. Between 1981 and 1983, we collected 8 pathologically proven cases of S…

Endometriosis of the bowel most often involves the sigmoid and rectosigmoid and appears as an intramural mass protruding into the lumen in a polypoid or constricting fashion. Occasionally there is an intraluminal mass without obvious intram…

Extrinsic processes affecting the bowel are frequently mistaken for intrinsic gastrointestinal disease. However, extrinsic involvement of bowel produces morphologic changes distinguishable from those of primary diseases of bowel in most cas…

The sonographic features of carcinoma of the gallbladder are reviewed. Four cases of carcinoma of the gallbladder are presented which illustrate some, but not all, of the sonographic findings resulting from this abnormality. The findings il…