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Pictorial interlude: Caught up in a ‘whirl’
Abstract
A patient with the ‘whirl sign’ on computed tomography is 25.3 times as likely as a patient without the sign to have small-bowel obstruction (SBO) necessitating surgery. The ‘whirl sign’ therefore has an important role in the assessment of patients with clinical and radiological signs of SBO.
