Bringing the inflamed and fibrotic bowel into focus: Imaging in inflammatory bowel disease

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Adler, Jeremy ^b   Stidham, Ryan W ^b   Higgins, Peter D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*

Author keywords

Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging tomography; Inflammatory bowel disease; Radiation; Radiograph computed ultrasonography; Radiography

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ENEMA; MACROGOL;

BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; FISTULOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72149110045     PISSN: 15547914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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