Acute Colosestitis and Colonigitis: A Comprehensive Approach

The 2018 Tokyo Guidelines on Diagnostic Criteria of both acute colosestitis and colonigitis can help you in making the diagnosis. Both conditions remain clinical diagnoses, typically relying on a combination of elements ranging from the history, physical exam, laboratory findings, and imaging findings. The presence of local and systemic inflammation constitutes a suspected diagnosis, whereas the presence of all three makes for a definitive diagnosis.