CT Evaluation of Postpartum Abdominal Pain: Normal Appearance, Pathology, and Pitfalls

The postpartum period is defined as the 6 to 8 weeks after delivery of the fetus and placenta. Postpartum complications and physiologic changes of a postpartum uterus may overlap, which potentially makes imaging interpretation and diagnosis difficult. On occasion, postsurgical inflammatory changes can extend beyond the reproductive organs and may confound diagnosis of the source of a patient's abdominal pain. Pathology during the postpartum state may be obstetric, gynecologic, or nonobstetric/gynecologic in origin.1

Source: Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology - October 25, 2017 Category: Radiology Tags: Article Source Type: research