title: Small bowel imaging: CT enteroclysis or barium enteroclysis? Critically appraised topic.
abstract: Barium enteroclysis has been traditionally used in the diagnosis of small bowel Crohn's disease. Recently CT enteroclysis has been developed as an alternative imaging technique for small bowel Crohn's disease. A search and critical appraisal of the literature was performed to determine which technique is better for diagnosis of Crohn's disease. The best current evidence indicates that CT enteroclysis is a good test for the diagnosis of Crohn's disease but barium enteroclysis may also be required in a small group of patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St, Dublin 7, Ireland. jenniekerr@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Jennifer M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kerr
mesh_terms: D001466:Barium Sulfate; D003287:Contrast Media; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004733:Enema; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*