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27.02.2019 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Detection of free air within the abdomen: the abdominal point
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 9/2019
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This 44-year–old male sustained injury in a motor vehicle accident. Due to suspicion of intra-abdominal trauma, ultrasonography was performed. Figure 1 shows peritoneal stripe enhancement with reverberation artifact deep to the peritoneal line. This is consistent with free air within the abdomen. Adjacent to the air collection is a fluid-filled intestinal structure with a thin peritoneal stripe. As there is no interposed air between the peritoneum and the intestinal structure, there is no free air at this site.
Fig. 1
Ultrasonography findings of focal enhancement of peritoneal stripe (thick arrows) with reverberation artifact (arrowhead) in comparison with adjacent normal peritoneum (thin arrows)
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