thumbprinting

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting sign and its differential diagnosis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Pseudomembranous colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Pseudomembranous colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Colonic thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Infectious colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Colitis - inflammatory bowel disease - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting - ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Pancolitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting - ulcerative colitis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• Thumbprinting in the colon - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Thumbprinting
• 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