title: Inflammatory bowel disease in children.
abstract: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease is a complex area of pediatric gastrointestinal imaging. Multiple causative factors are discussed with emphasis upon disorders without known or presumed infectious etiology. Conditions discussed include Henoch-Schönlein purpura, Kawasaki disease, Behçet's disease, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis with their respective clinical and radiological findings, differential diagnosis features, plus pertinent extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242, USA.
authors.forename: U O
authors.initials: UO
authors.lastname: Aideyan
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004064:Digestive System / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography