ReviewEuropean radiology2008
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction in adult patients: multidetector row helical CT features.
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- Pediatric Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction: Progress and Challenges.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Unmasking the "Braided" Bowel: Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction-A Case Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- International Forum on Visceral Myopathy 2024: Advances in the Knowledge of the Disease.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Review
- Systemic Sclerosis-Related Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction Mimicking Mechanical Small Bowel Obstruction.Cureus · 2026Article
- Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction secondary to intestinal leiomyositis in a ragdoll cat.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- CHRONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION OF THE SIGMOID COLON: A CASE REPORT.Acta clinica Croatica · 2022Article
- Latest developments in chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Review
- Assessment of the Clinical Usefulness of Preoperative Computed Tomography in Colorectal Cancer Patients Who Received Unplanned Reoperation.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2020Article
- Anti-Hu-Mediated Paraneoplastic Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction Arising From Small Cell Prostate Cancer.ACG case reports journal · 2019Article
- Clinical significance of pneumatosis intestinalis - correlation of MDCT-findings with treatment and outcome.European radiology · 2017Article
- Massive gastric distension from chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2012Article
- Pseudopneumoperitoneum in chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction: a case report.World journal of gastroenterology · 2011Article
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Abstract
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is a rare condition due to severe gastrointestinal motility disorder. Adult patients with CIPO experience symptoms of mechanical obstruction, but reliable clinical signs that may help distinguish between actual mechanical obstruction and CIPO are lacking. Additionally, abdominal plain films that commonly show bowel dilatation with air-fluid levels do not reach acceptable degrees of specificity to exclude actual obstruction. Therefore, most adult patients with CIPO usually undergo multiple and often fruitless surgery, often leading to repeated bowel resections before diagnosis is made. In these patients who present with abdominal signs mimicking symptoms that would warrant surgical exploration, multidetector-row helical CT (MDCT) is helpful to resolve this diagnostic dilemma. MDCT shows a diffusely distended bowel and helps to rule out a mechanical cause of obstruction, thus suggesting CIPO and obviating the need for unnecessary laparotomy. In adult patients with CIPO, MDCT may show pneumatosis intestinalis, pneumoperitoneum or intussusception. However, these conditions generally do not require surgery in patients with CIPO. This pictorial essay presents the more and less common MDCT features of CIPO in adult patients, to make the reader more familiar with this disease.
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