A 61-year-old woman, afflicted and hemodynamically stable, presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of abdominal pain.
Abdominal palpation: bleated and presible abdomen, painful to palpation in the left iliac fossa, without defense.
Abdominal computed tomography: multiple diverticula in the descending colon and sigmoid, thickening of the wall and discrete inflammatory changes of pericolic fat ; loops of the small intestine in the right iliac fossa (IVF), upper right iliac vein.
