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Male patient's chest CT.
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There was no pleural effusion (Figures 1 and 2), but ascites and dilated small bowel loops could be seen in the few available axial cuts of the abdomen (Figures 3 and 4).
Male patient's chest CT.
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There was no pleural effusion (Figures 1 and 2), but ascites and dilated small bowel loops could be seen in the few available axial cuts of the abdomen (Figures 3 and 4).
Male patient's abdominal CT (arrows: ascites).
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There was no pleural effusion (Figures 1 and 2), but ascites and dilated small bowel loops could be seen in the few available axial cuts of the abdomen (Figures 3 and 4).
Male patient's abdominal CT (arrows: dilated small bowel loops).
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There was no pleural effusion (Figures 1 and 2), but ascites and dilated small bowel loops could be seen in the few available axial cuts of the abdomen (Figures 3 and 4).
Male patient's supine abdominal X-ray.
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Both findings were in favor of small bowel obstruction (Figure 5).
Male patient's upright abdominal X-ray.
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Multiple air fluid levels were visible in the small bowel loops in upright abdominal X-ray, pointing at small bowel obstruction (Figure 6).
Photo of gangrenous small intestine of the patient.
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Tissue decay has happened, and the intestine was about to perforate (Figure 7). These findings corresponded to acute mesenteric ischemia due to complete occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery for at least several hours.