Abstract
A combination of different radiological techniques allows the correct evaluation of patients with suspected small-bowel disease, particularly Crohn’s disease and small-bowel neoplasms. Barium studies provide only indirect information on the intestinal wall and adjacent extraintestinal structures whereas with US, CT, and MRI direct visualization of the wall (thickness and structure) and adjacent extraintestinal structures (mesentery, perivisceral fibrofatty cells, lymph nodes, peritoneal spaces) is possible. In particular, CT-enteroclysis and MRI-enteroclysis show mucosal alterations and the morpho-functional characteristics of the small-bowel loops. CT findings have been shown to correlate with the clinical activity index of Crohn’s disease.
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Minordi, L.M., Vecchioli, A., Larosa, L., Bonomo, L. (2012). Radiological Diagnosis of Small-Bowel Diseases. In: Trecca, A. (eds) Ileoscopy. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2345-1_10
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