Noninvasive imaging of the small bowel in Crohn's disease: The final frontier

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1987-1999

  Allen, Patrick B ^a   De Cruz, Peter ^a   Lee, Wai Kit ^a   Taylor, Stuart ^b   Desmond, Paul V ^a,c   Kamm, Michael A ^a,c,d  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; noninvasive imaging; small bowel

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM CHELATE; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; MACROGOL; METHYLCELLULOSE; WATER;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; APHTHOUS ULCER; BARIUM ENEMA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE ULCER; IONIZING RADIATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONINVASIVE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL;

EID: 80051544980     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21598     Document Type: Review

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