title: CT of inflammatory bowel disease.
abstract: Computed tomography (CT) provides an important perspective in patients with inflammatory bowel disease that often has a profound influence on the therapeutic decision-making process. By virtue of its ability to image the bowel wall, serosa, and mesentery directly and noninvasively, CT can diagnose infectious and inflammatory complications that often can only be inferred indirectly by barium studies and endoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed