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Beware of Chilaiditi sign!!
A 41-year-old male with a history of Down’s syndrome, seizure disorder, renal calculi, and chronic respiratory failure was admitted for complicated urinary tract infection. Chest X-ray (Fig. 1) showed elevated right hemidiaphragm. CT abdomen (red arrows Figs. 2 and 3) demonstrated interposition of colon between right hemidiaphragm and liver (Chilaiditi sign) as well as gallstones. Chilaiditi si...
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A 90-year-old wheelchair bound male was brought to the emergency department with complaints of worsening abdominal pain over the last 2-3 days. The patient also had difficulty in passing urine. Abdominal examination revealed tenderness in the umbilical and hypogastric area without rebound tenderness or guarding. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed a loop of colon interpositioned betw...
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A 68-year-old male with a history of prostate cancer presented with a two-day history of fever and left flank pain. Vital signs included a temperature of 39.4 degrees Celsius with 93% oxygen saturation and heart rate of 112 beats per minute. An upright chest radiograph showed concern for free intraperitoneal air (Figure) with a white blood cell count of 17.3. A computed tomography of the abdome...
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A 66-year-old male patient was admitted in our outside hospital’s emergency room after 4 days of epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting. No fever, dysthermia or respiratory symptoms were related. The pain irradiated to right hypochondria and even to right chest. Laboratory tests showed slight elevation of liver enzymes and leukocytosis. Abdominal CT revealed hepatodiaphragmatic colonic interposit...
متن کاملChilaiditi syndrome
Chilaiditi syndrome or subphrenic interposition of the colon, is a rare condition with an incidence of 0.025% 0.28% in radiographs and mostly diagnosed as an incidental finding. We report the case of a 67-years-old male, heavy smoker, with history of intermittent abdominal pain, who reported cough and muco-purulent sputum without fever or dyspnea. Physical examination showed bilateral bronchial...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Lung India
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0970-2113
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.68311