Inflammatory activity in Crohn’s disease: CE-US
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Vincenzo Migaleddu, Emilio Quaia, Domenico Scanu, Serra Carla,3 Michele Bertolotto,2 Girolamo Campisi,1 Danilo Sirigu,1 Giuseppe Virgilio1
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
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, CEMR), 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.
Abdom Imaging (2011) 36:142–148 DOI: 10.1007/s00261-010-9622-8
