Demographics:
23 years old, Male
Indication:
Right lower quadrant pain, neutropenic fever
Findings
Lower chest
- No acute findings
Abdomen/Pelvis
- Marked mural thickening of the cecum and ascending colon with surrounding fat stranding
- Small amount of free fluid in the right paracolic gutter without loculated collection or free air
- Mild hepatomegaly
- Normal appendix
MSK
- No acute findings
Diagnosis
Typhlitis
Sample Report
Marked inflammation of the cecum and proximal ascending colon, concerning for typhlitis in this neutropenic patient. No evidence of abscess, perforation, or ischemia.
Normal appendix.
Discussion