Acute presentation of colorectal lesions are common in the emergency setting and their timely diagnosis plays an important role to avoid the complications. Imaging is used to differentiate between patients require immediate surgical intervention and patients can be managed conservatively or by surgery on a less urgent basis.
Different diseases of acute pathologies can affect the colon including inflammatory causes which include acute appendicitis, acute diverticulitis, acute inflammatory bowel diseases, typhlitis, pseudomembranous colitis (PMC), stercoral colitis (SC) in addition to the common acute presentation of neoplastic causes include large bowel obstruction (LBO), perforation and appendicitis. Also, other causes are like non neoplastic causes of LBO, acute colorectal bleeding, colonic trauma and foreign body. Computed tomography (CT) is used to evaluate patients presenting to the emergency department because of its speed, higher accuracy and wider availability.
AIM OF THE WORK
The aim of the present study was to assess the role of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) in the evaluation of various acute presentation of colorectal lesions.