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Colitis – PFA

Colitis – PFA

Colitis. This patient with a history of ulcerative colitis presented with acute abdominal pain and bloody diarrhoea. The transverse and sigmoid colon are only mildly dilated however there is obvious severe thickening of the descending colonic wall (arrows), in keeping with colitis.

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