OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to prospectively obtain pilot data on the accuracy of MR enterography for detecting small-bowel Crohn's disease compared with CT enterography and with a clinical reference standard based on imaging, clinical information, and ileocolonoscopy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study group for this blinded prospective study was composed of 33 patients with suspect...

CT enterography is a new imaging modality that has distinct advantages over conventional CT, wireless capsule endoscopy, and barium examination. CT enterography is noninvasive and allows rapid mapping of disease activity before endoscopy and in cases where the endoscope cannot reach the diseased segment. CT enterography is readily available, is operator independent, and allows evaluation of ext...

UNLABELLED We combined (18)F-FDG PET and CT enterography in a single examination and compared the level of (18)F-FDG uptake measured by maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax) with the CT enterography patterns of disease activity found in patients with Crohn disease (CD). METHODS Twenty-eight patients (mean age, 37.5 y; 11 male and 17 female) suspected of having active CD underwent PET/CT ...

This retrospective HIPAA-compliant study was approved by the institutional review board and institutional conflict of interest committee. Patients gave informed consent for use of medical records. The purpose of the study was to retrospectively evaluate the findings depicted at computed tomographic (CT) enterography performed with a 64-section CT system and by using neutral enteric contrast mat...

Enteroclysis was first used to diagnose small bowel obstruction in 1996. However, nasojejunal intubation required during enteroclysis causes discomfort to the patient. Triphasic computed tomography (CT) enterography, a noninvasive procedure that does not require intubation, was found to be an efficient method to diagnose small bowel lesions. We describe our experience of using triphasic CT ente...

OBJECTIVE: The present study was aimed at demonstrating the value of computed tomography enterography (CT enterography) and how this imaging method can be useful in the diagnostic elucidation and assessment of patients with small bowel diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective evaluation of 35 patients submitted to CT enterography in a 16-row multidetector CT equipment from May/2008 to Mar...

Background & objectives: The small intestine is a difficult organ to examine by clinical or radiographic means. There is a vast array of pathologic processes that occurs in the small bowel and mesenteric vasculature. With advent of CT especially with MDCT the small bowel imaging has grown by leaps and bounds with radiologists playing a key role nowadays in determination of the disease process a...

During the endoscopic treatment of stenotic pancreaticojejunal anastomoses in patients who have undergone Whipple’s resection, it can be difficult to identify the pancreaticojejunal anastomotic site [1,2]. To solve this problem, we used computed tomography (CT) enterography to obtain detailed information about the pancreaticojejunal anastomotic site. We report a case in which a stenotic pancrea...

CT enterography is a method of contrast enhanced diagnosis of small intestine from computed tomography examination. However, unlike the bones or other significant structures, automatic or semiautomatic examination of small intestine is almost impossible without the proper use of a denoising algorithm. We cannot wait for hours for a simple denoising algorithm in medical praxis, but current GPUs ...