Diagnostic imaging in Crohn's disease: What is the new gold standard?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 421-436

  Dambha, F ^a   Tanner, J ^a   Carroll, N ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease diagnosis; Diagnostic imaging methods; Fluoroscopy; Magnetic resonance imaging methods; Positron emission tomography; Ultrasound; X ray computer methods

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENDOSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; ULTRASOUND;

CROHN'S DISEASE/DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING/METHODS; FLUOROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING/METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; X-RAY COMPUTER/METHODS;

CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84902275061     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: 15321916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2014.04.010     Document Type: Review

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