GI Teaching File

Bowel Rupture

Triangular and rhomboid areas of increased attenuation seen within the mesentery (arrows) represent contrast that has leaked out of the bowel and is trapped between leaves of the mesentery. Intraperitoneal contrast is also seen in the left paracolic gutter.

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