Fig. 7

High-grade mechanical small bowel obstruction caused by paraumbilical hernia in a 78-year-old female patient complaining of acute abdominal pain. a Abdominal ultrasound image showing dilated small bowel loops. CT sagittal image (b) and CT axial images (c, d), showing an hernial sac (circle) containing collapsed mid-ileal bowel loops (arrowheads) with consequent dilatation of the ileal and jejunal bowel loops proximal to herniated loop (stars). A calcified uterine fibroid (yellow arrow) is incidentally seen on (d) axial CT image