The small bowel barium follow-through enhanced with an oral effervescent agent.
A method is described for consistently improving the quality of the small bowel barium follow-through by enhancement with an oral effervescent agent. With this method, although satisfactory double-contrast views of the whole small bowel were obtained in less than half the patients, satisfactory distension of the small-bowel loops was achieved in 96% of examinations.
D001466:Barium Sulfate; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005740:Gases; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008722:Methods; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors
D005740:Gases; D001466:Barium Sulfate