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Bowel thickening, also called thickening of the colon wall, is a medical term used to describe the swelling, widening, or hardening of the tissue and cells that make up the bowel wall. This condition results from inflammation of the tissues which leads to the narrowing of the bowel.
Gastrointestinal wall thickening has been noted in patients with cirrhosis and can be severe enough to lead to a misdiagnosis of ischemia, inflammation, hemorrhage or even carcinoma of the involved segments of bowel. In patients with cirrhosis, gastrointestinal wall thickening generally is caused by edema. Karahan and associates characterized the association of gastrointestinal wall thickening in patients with cirrhosis and control subjects.