Show Me Where Bowel and general surgery Diverticular disease

Diverticular disease explorer

A 3D picture to support a conversation with the clinical team. It does not diagnose or recommend treatment.

Guide

For the clinical team

Set up from the CT or colonoscopy report

Start with normal anatomy. Use the CT or colonoscopy report to show where the pouches are, how many, and whether there is inflammation, a collection, a burst or a narrowing, then show the treatment your team has discussed. Initial settings are examples: replace them with the report details.

Diverticular disease

Diverticular disease on the model

Changing a setting below also adds the findings.

Where the pouches areInflammation and other findings are drawn in the sigmoid colon, or in the descending colon when that is chosen.

How many pouches

The number and places drawn are an example.

Inflammation (diverticulitis)

What else the scan showed

Size of the collection mm

Only for a collection (abscess). Changing it also sets the scan result to a collection.

Where the pouches are, how many, inflammation, other scan findings and the collection size come from the report. The number and places of the pouches, and the shapes, are schematic.

Views and layers

Use Whole body, Abdomen and Bowel close-up to move closer in the same scene. The colon, small bowel and stomach are see-through. Show / hide controls the body outline, small bowel, stomach and liver, bladder and rectum, spine, measurements and labels.

Large bowel (colon)Pouches (diverticula)Inflamed area (diverticulitis)Narrowed part (stricture)Collection (abscess)Leaked infectionTreatment shownDrainSmall bowelBladder

Drag to turn · scroll or pinch to zoom

Slice across the bowel

A schematic cut across the large bowel, showing its wall, the inside and example pouches bulging out through the wall. This is not the patient’s scan.

In plain words

Key measurements

Values come from the report. The bowel is an average adult’s; the number and places of the pouches and the shapes are examples.

Treatment options

Show the treatment your team has discussed

Choose a picture of the planned treatment. The model does not select a treatment.

Show

Other care, such as fluids through a drip in hospital, is not shown. Your team can explain it.

Share with the patient

Make a picture sheet to send

Set up each view you want, then press Snapshot above the model. You can add up to 4. If you add none, the current view is used.

Prepared for (optional)

Team contact (optional)

Note for the patient (optional)

Include the plain-words summary Include key measurements Include the operation shown Add a page about the body part, life after treatment, support and the words used Add a page explaining the labels in plain English Add a QR code that reopens this picture (holds the model settings only, never the name or notes)

Names and notes typed here never leave this device and are forgotten when you close the page. Check the sheet before sending, and use your organisation's approved secure route.

For the patient and family

Help and support

Words used in clinic and trusted information from the NHS and Guts UK.

Open help and support

This is a simplified teaching model of diverticular disease in an adult. It does not interpret CT scans or colonoscopy, diagnose, or judge which treatment is right. The number and places of the pouches, and the shapes of inflammation, a collection, a burst and a narrowing, are schematic. Important information · Nothing is saved.