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Thirty-eight year-old male with diverticulitis and well-contained perforation. Axial contrast-enhanced CT demonstrates edema and thickening of the sigmoid colon wall with multiple diverticulums. A fluid collection adjacent to the sigmoid colon (arrows) is an abscess caused by perforation of the diverticulitis. Free air pockets (arrowhead) confined to the pericolonic region are seen
