Use of color Doppler ultrasonography for evaluating vascularity of small intestinal lesions in Crohn's disease: Correlation with endoscopic and surgical macroscopic findings

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 295-301

  Sasaki, Tomohiko ^a,b   Kunisaki, Reiko ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroto ^a   Yamamoto, Hisae ^a   Kimura, Hideaki ^a   Hanzawa, Akiho ^a   Shibata, Naomi ^a   Yonezawa, Hiromi ^a   Miyajima, Eiji ^a   Sakamaki, Kentaro ^c   Numata, Kazushi ^a   Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a   Maeda, Shin ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity; Color Doppler; Crohn's disease; Limberg score; Simple endoscopic score for Crohn's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84894189532     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2013.871744     Document Type: Article

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