Current status of small-bowel ultrasound.
Ultrasonography offers direct imaging of the bowel wall and allows dynamic evaluation of peristalsis. It helps to differentiate eosinophilic gastroenteritis from regional enteritis and lymphoma, displays a typical appearance in intussusception and is quite specific in the afferent loop syndrome, closed-loop obstruction and lymphedema. It may be helpful in ischemia of the bowel and in the evaluation of acute appendicitis.
Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison.
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