Abdominal bowel ultrasound can predict the risk of surgery in crohn's disease: Proposal of an ultrasonographic score

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 585-593

  Rigazio, Caterina ^a,b   Ercole, Elena ^a   Laudi, Cristiana ^a   Daperno, Marco ^a   Lavagna, Alessandro ^a   Crocellà, Lucia ^a   Bertolino, Franco ^b   Viganò, Luca ^b   Sostegni, Raffaello ^a   Pera, Angelo ^a   Rocca, Rodolfo ^a  

^a Gastroenterology Division   (Italy)

^b MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bowel wall; Crohn's disease; Prognosis; Surgery; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESALAZINE;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE STENOSIS; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THICKNESS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLECTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 67651091793     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520802705992     Document Type: Article

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