Common diagnostic flow charts for diagnosis and management of patients with an inflammatory bowel disease.
This paper presents the different views of the gastroenterologist, the radiologist and the nuclear medicine specialist in the management of inflammatory bowel disease. The role of clinical parameters and biochemical marker as well as the progressive use of the different imaging modalities: magnetic resonance, computerized tomography and nuclear medicine techniques is presented. The paper is an effort to combine the published European Crohn's and Colitis Organization, European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology and European Association of Nuclear Medicine consensus with the conclusions of the multidisciplinary meeting organized in 2012 Milano during the EANM Congress with the objective of find a common diagnostic flowchart.
Department of Nuclear Medicine Bellvitge-IDIBELL University Hospital Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain - jmartincomin@gmail.com.
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Laghi
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