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Diverticular Disease

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Diverticular disease is considered to be a normal finding as it is the most common benign colonic abnormality in people over the age of 50 years. CTC is contraindicated in patients with acute diverticulitis. Chronic diverticular disease does have known complications, which may be visualised by CTC. There are several criteria that distinguish diverticular disease from underlying cancer. CTC images of diverticular disease are presented to illustrate the features of the pathology.

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Professor David Kim from University of Wisconsin is thanked for the colo-vesical CTC images.

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    Joel H. Bortz MBChB, DMRD, FRCR, FFRRCS

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    Joel H. Bortz

  2. Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Aarthi Ramlaul

  3. Formerly School of Radiography, King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, KZN, South Africa

    Leonie Munro

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Bortz, J.H. (2016). Diverticular Disease. In: Bortz, J., Ramlaul, A., Munro, L. (eds) CT Colonography for Radiographers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29379-0_16

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