Impact of high-resolution transabdominal ultrasound in the diagnosis of complications of Crohn's disease

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 690-695

  Neye, Holger ^b   Ensberg, Daniel ^b   Rauh, Peter ^b   Peitz, Ulrich ^a   Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a   Treiber, Gerhard ^a   Klauck, Sabine ^a   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a   Rickes, Steffen ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AMEOS Hospital St Salvator   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Crohn's disease; High resolution transabdominal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; ENEMA; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE STENOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PANCREAS FISTULA; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952180706     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521003710190     Document Type: Article

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