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• Thumbprinting sign and its differential diagnosis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Pseudomembranous colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Pseudomembranous colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Colonic thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Infectious colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Colitis - inflammatory bowel disease - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Pancolitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting in the colon - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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• Thumbprinting - ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Thumbprinting is a radiographic sign of large bowel wall thickening, usually caused by edema, related to an infective or inflammatory process (colitis). The normal haustra become thickened at regular intervals appearing like thumbprints projecting into the aerated lumen.
Pathology
Etiology
Thumbprinting may be seen in:
- inflammatory bowel disease
- infection (i.e. pseudomembranous colitis)
- ischemic bowel
- diverticulitis
- mucosal/submucosal hemorrhage
- lymphoma
- amyloid
- typhlitis
Radiographic features
Plain radiograph/CT
Thumb-shaped, nodular, indentations at regular intervals in the bowel wall.
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Chronisch-entzündliche
Darmerkrankungen