Significance of abdominal ultrasound in inflammatory bowel disease

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 482-493

  Dietrich, C F ^a  

^a CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal ultrasound in inflammatory bowel disease; Antibiotic associated colitis; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Neutropenic enterocolitis; Penicillin induced segmental hemorrhagic colitis; Pseudomembranous colitis; Sonomorphology; Transabdominal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G; SHU 508; SONOVUE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; ASCITES; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; ILEUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; INTESTINE WALL; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ABDOMEN; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 70449491192     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000233287     Document Type: Review

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