title: Transabdominal ultrasound in inflammatory bowel disease. Conventional and recently developed techniques--update.
abstract: Transabdominal ultrasound is clinically useful in detecting Crohn's disease (initial diagnosis) by evaluating bowel wall thickness and surrounding structures including periintestinal inflammatory reaction, extent and localization of involved bowel segments and detection of extraluminal complications such as fistula, abscesses, carcinoma and ileus. Transabdominal ultrasound presently is accepted as a clinically important first line tool in assessing patients with Crohn's disease irrespective of their clinical symptoms and/or disease activity. It helps to better characterize the disease course in individual patients and can guide therapeutic decisions. In this review the current literature will be analysed.
authors: Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Rehaklinik Ob der Tauber, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors: Hubert
authors: H
authors: Allgayer
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Braden
authors: Christoph F
authors: CF
authors: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media