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Intra- and Retroperitoneal Hemorrhages

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CT of the Acute Abdomen

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Spontaneous intra- or retroperitoneal hemorrhage can result from a vast variety of etiologies. When exception is made of hemoperitoneum caused by gynecological conditions, best explored by transvaginal ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) is, in the majority of cases, the best imaging modality, allowing not only the localization of the bleeding, but also the analysis of the underlying cause. Despite the high diagnostic performances of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the majority of pathologies described below, CT offers many advantages such as its high availability in emergency and a much shorter scan time.

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    Philippe Otal, Julien Auriol, Marie-Charlotte Delchier, Marie-Agnès Marachet & Hervé Rousseau

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Otal, P., Auriol, J., Delchier, MC., Marachet, MA., Rousseau, H. (2010). Intra- and Retroperitoneal Hemorrhages. In: Taourel, P. (eds) CT of the Acute Abdomen. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2010_87

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