title: Chronic inflammatory diseases of the bowel: diagnosis and follow-up.
abstract: Approximately one fourth of cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occur during childhood and children are more prone than their adult counterparts to have severe disease at presentation. To investigate these diseases MR imaging is no longer an emerging tool. Numerous reviews and articles have been published on this topic underlying the advances of imaging but also the complexity and the financial impact on management of such diseases. In children it seems reasonable to consider US as the first imaging examination to perform, especially when the diagnosis of IBD is unknown. However, we believe that recent and future technical progress, especially the ability of MR to display reproducible data, and the need for gold standard evaluation of new medical therapies will increase the role of MR enterography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hôpital Timone Enfant, 264 rue Saint Pierre, Marseille Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gorincour
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aschero
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Desvignes
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Portier
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bourlière-Najean
authors.forename: Alix
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruocco-Angari
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Devred
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Colavolpe
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roquelaure
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Delarue
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Petit
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male