ReviewLa Radiologia medica2019
Clostridium difficile colitis: CT findings and differential diagnosis.
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- Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- Development of a toxin-selective immunotracer for in vivo detection of Clostridioides difficile infection by immunoPET.EJNMMI radiopharmacy and chemistry · 2025Article
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- Accuracy of computed tomography in staging acute appendicitis and its impact on surgical outcome and strategy: a multi-center retrospective case-control study.La Radiologia medica · 2023Article
- The Role of Magnetic Resonance Enterography in Crohn's Disease: A Review of Recent Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Errors in MDCT diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2022Review
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- Structured reporting of computed tomography in the staging of colon cancer: a Delphi consensus proposal.La Radiologia medica · 2022Article
- Gut microbiota in a population highly affected by obesity and type 2 diabetes and susceptibility to COVID-19.World journal of gastroenterology · 2021Review
- Large Bowel Ischemia/Infarction: How to Recognize It and Make Differential Diagnosis? A Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Challenge in diagnosis of late onset necrotizing enterocolitis in a term infant: a case report.BMC pediatrics · 2021Article
- Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection in the critically ill: an expert statement.Intensive care medicine · 2020Review
- Imaging Inflammation and Infection in the Gastrointestinal Tract.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a severe and potentially deadly infectious colitis whose incidence is dramatically increasing in the last decades, with more virulent strains. CDI should be suspected in case of unexplained diarrhea and abdominal pain in patients with a recent history of antibiotic use and healthcare exposures; diagnosis is based on a combination of clinical and laboratory findings with demonstration of C. difficile toxins by stool test. The advantages of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) are the noninvasiveness and the ability to evaluate both the colonic wall and the adjacent soft tissues. Considerable overlap exists between the CECT findings of CDI and those of colitis of other origins, such as typhlitis, ischemic colitis, graft-versus-host disease, radiation colitis and inflammatory bowel diseases; however, some features may help distinguish between these conditions. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the imaging features of Clostridium difficile colitis and its mimics, with a view to assist the radiologist in reaching the correct diagnosis.
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