Clinical feature and bowel ultrasound in crohn's disease - Does additional information from magnetic resonance imaging affect therapeutic approach and when does extended diagnostic investigation make sense?

Digestion

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 18-23

  Girlich, Christiane ^a,b   Ott, Claudia ^a   Strauch, Ulrike ^a   Schacherer, Doris ^a   Obermeier, Florian ^a   Jung, Ernst Michael ^a   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Schreyer, Andreas Georg ^a   Klebl, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; MR enterography; Therapeutic approach; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BUDESONIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CORTICOSTEROID; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENTEROGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UROSEPSIS;

ABSCESS; ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; JEJUNUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956484991     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314590     Document Type: Article

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