Abdom Imaging (2011) 36:115-125
Kate Steiner, Frank Gollub, Sam Stuart, Anthie Papadopoulou, Nick Woodward
Abstract
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding is a common medical emergency, which carries a significant mortality. CT Angiography is an important non-invasive diagnostic tool, which can be used to plan subsequent endovascular or surgical management. The cases presented demonstrate that a meticulous and systematic approach to image interpretation is necessary, in particular, to detect focal sites of contrast extravasation and small pseud-oaneurysms.