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Abdominal Pain After Colon Cancer  



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BACKGROUND
This 72-year-old woman presents with acute abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. Her sonograms and CT scans are shown above. What is the diagnosis?
Hint
Six months ago, CT scans obtained to stage her colon cancer depicted a lesion in the liver.
Author: Ali Nawaz Khan, MBBS, FRCP, FRCS, FRCR, Lecturer, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester, and Prabhakar Rajiah, MD, FRCR, Registrar, Department of Radiology, North Manchester General Hospital NHS Trust, UK
eMedicine Editor: Sat Sharma, MD
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
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