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Figure 5: Transverse CT image in a 32-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis and bloody diarrhea demonstrates the double halo, or target, sign with inner (mucosa, arrow) and outer (muscularis propria, arrowhead) rings of high attenuation separated by a ring of low attenuation, which represents submucosa with edema. Little if any pericolonic stranding is seen.
