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Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease

The development of strictures in Crohn's disease is a main cause of hospitalization and often represent an indication for surgery. The differentiation between inflammatory and fibrotic strictures is useful to determine the optimal treatment. Today, the availability of noninvasive methods to ass...

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Autores principales: Stasi, Cristina, Falchini, Massimo, Milani, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Scientific World Journal 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22654607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/450151
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description The development of strictures in Crohn's disease is a main cause of hospitalization and often represent an indication for surgery. The differentiation between inflammatory and fibrotic strictures is useful to determine the optimal treatment. Today, the availability of noninvasive methods to assess the presence and extension of strictures offers new tools for the diagnosis and follow-up of the disease. Bowel ultrasound, power doppler ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging offer the additional advantage that they do not expose patients to ionizing radiation. In this paper we provide an update on the accuracy of these noninvasive methods for the diagnosis of Crohn's disease.
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spelling pubmed-33612402012-05-31 Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease Stasi, Cristina Falchini, Massimo Milani, Stefano ScientificWorldJournal Review Article The development of strictures in Crohn's disease is a main cause of hospitalization and often represent an indication for surgery. The differentiation between inflammatory and fibrotic strictures is useful to determine the optimal treatment. Today, the availability of noninvasive methods to assess the presence and extension of strictures offers new tools for the diagnosis and follow-up of the disease. Bowel ultrasound, power doppler ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging offer the additional advantage that they do not expose patients to ionizing radiation. In this paper we provide an update on the accuracy of these noninvasive methods for the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. The Scientific World Journal 2012-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3361240/ /pubmed/22654607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/450151 Text en Copyright © 2012 Cristina Stasi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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Stasi, Cristina
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Milani, Stefano
Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease
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title_fullStr Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease
title_full_unstemmed Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease
title_short Imaging Modalities for the Noninvasive Assessment of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease
title_sort imaging modalities for the noninvasive assessment of fibrosis in crohn's disease
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361240/
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