Small bowel imaging in managing Crohn's Disease patients

  • The small bowel is essential to sustain alimentation and small bowel Crohn's disease (CD) may severely limit its function. Small bowel imaging is a crucial element in diagnosing small bowel CD, and treatment control with imaging is increasingly used to optimize the patients outcome. Thereby, capsule endoscopy, Balloon-assisted enteroscopy, and Magnetic resonance imaging have become key players to manage CD patients. In this review, role of small bowel imaging is detailed discussed for use in diagnosing and managing Crohn's disease patients.

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Author:Jörg Gerhard AlbertORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-240563
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/502198
ISSN:1687-630X
ISSN:1687-6121
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22474438
Parent Title (English):Gastroenterology research and practice
Publisher:Hindawi
Place of publication:New York, NY
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2012/03/09
Year of first Publication:2012
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/03/09
Volume:2012
Issue:Article id 502198
Page Number:7
Note:
Copyright © 2012 Jörg G. Albert. This is an open access article distributed under the   Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
HeBIS-PPN:310871263
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0