A woman's death would have been avoided by performing a CT scan when she attended A&E, an inquest heard.
Margaret Appiah, 51, died at Newham Hospital on October 26 last year.
An inquest into her death was opened at East London Coroner's Court on Thursday (September 10).
Senior coroner Graeme Irvine said that on October 25, Margaret presented at the hospital's A&E with abdominal pain.
Margaret was assessed but the pain was put down to a chronic hernia.
She was discharged without a CT scan being carried out, the court heard.
She died the following day from a small intestinal perforation.
Mr Irvine said the inquest opening had been delayed to allow Barts Health NHS Trust to conduct an internal review, which has now been completed.
"It has now been indicated that, uncontroversially, a CT scan should have been performed when she first presented to A&E and this would have indicated the perforation and would have been escalated to surgery," Mr Irvine said.
"It is therefore imperative that we have an investigation into this avoidable death."
A full inquest is listed to take place next month.
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