MR enterography findings in abdominopelvic extraintestinal complications of Crohn's disease.
MR of the small bowel is a useful technique for the evaluation of both intraluminal and extraluminal pathologic involvement of the small bowel in patients with Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease is associated with a range of extraintestinal complications that sometimes may be the initial presenting symptoms. Some of these extraintestinal complications may not correlate with disease activity, but in general, they tend to follow the clinical course of disease and may have a high impact on life quality, morbidity, and even mortality in these patients. Our purpose is to describe some abdominopelvic extraintestinal complications of Crohn's disease, such as hepatopancreatobiliary, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, peritoneal, and lymph-nodal, detectable at MR enterography.
Department of Radiological Sciences; University of Messina, Policlinico "G. Martino" Via Consolare Valeria 1, Messina, Italy.
Silvio
S
Mazziotti
Alfredo
A
Blandino
Emanuele
E
Scribano
Michele
M
Gaeta
Achille
A
Mileto
Walter
W
Fries
Francesco
F
Bombaci
Giorgio
G
Ascenti
D000005:Abdomen / Q000473:pathology; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D010388:Pelvis / Q000473:pathology