Multimodality imaging of adult gastric emergencies: A pictorial review

Abhijit Sunnapwar, Vijayanadh Ojili, Rashmi Katre, Hardik Shah, Arpit Nagar

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 2017 27(1):13-22

Acute gastric emergencies require urgent surgical or nonsurgical intervention because they are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Imaging plays an important role in diagnosis since the clinical symptoms are often nonspecific and radiologist may be the first one to suggest a diagnosis as the imaging findings are often characteristic. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of multimodality imaging (plain radiograph, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography) of various life threatening gastric emergencies.

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