Crampy Abdominal Pain: Your Impression?
See if the results of this 62-year-old woman's colonoscopy help you identify the source of her abdominal pain.
Figure. Colonoscopic image.
A 62 year-old woman presents to the hospital after the sudden onset of crampy abdominal pain followed by several bloody bowel movements. She had a screening colonoscopy 12 years ago which was unremarkable. A CT of the abdomen is performed in the emergency room and reveals circumferential bowel wall thickening around the region of the descending colon. A colonoscopy is performed and demonstrates the image seen in the Figure.
What is the diagnosis?
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