| Inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease: CE-US. | |
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PMID: 20464392 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The evaluation of inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease (CD), a crucial aspect of treatment planning and monitoring, is currently based on a sum of clinical data and imaging findings. Among the contrast enhanced cross-sectional imaging techniques (CE-US, CE-CT, CE-MR), CE-US is less invasive, more comfortable for the patient, and has significant diagnostic accuracy. In addition, it is a portable, easily repeatable, well tolerated, and ionizing radiation-free imaging modality. CE-US has been introduced as effective method in the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of CD inflammatory activity. CE-US might help in characterizing bowel-wall thickening by differentiating inflammatory neovascularisation, edema, and fibrosis. The recent chance to evaluate the bowel-wall stiffness by US elastography imaging could allow further assessment of fibrosis that characterizes the evolution of the inflammatory activity. |
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Vincenzo Migaleddu; Emilio Quaia; Domenico Scanu; Serra Carla; Michele Bertolotto; Girolamo Campisi; Danilo Sirigu; Giuseppe Virgilio |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Abdominal imaging Volume: 36 ISSN: 1432-0509 ISO Abbreviation: Abdom Imaging Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-04-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9303672 Medline TA: Abdom Imaging Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 142-8 Citation Subset: IM |
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SMIRG FOUNDATION, Sardinian Mediterranean Imaging Research Group-No Profit Foundation/Diagnostic Imaging Unit, Sassari, Italy, migaleddu@smirg.org. |
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