Abstract
Patients with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea often present in the acute setting to the emergency department for evaluation. After the appropriate clinical assessment, cross-sectional imaging is often utilized to evaluate for the severity of the disease. Although a wide spectrum of findings may be seen, diffuse colonic mural thickening, consistent with pancolitis, is most common. We report an Escherichia coli 0157:H7-related pancolitis in a patient with spinach intake linked to the recent outbreak.
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Morgan, J., Bell, M. & Sadler, M.A. CT imaging of acute E. Coli-related colitis. Emerg Radiol 14, 187–189 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-007-0585-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-007-0585-1