Common and uncommon applications of bowel ultrasound with pathologic correlation in children.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this article is to describe the indications and techniques for bowel ultrasound for inflammatory bowel disease and other common and uncommon entities and describe and illustrate their imaging appearances, including endoscopic or surgical correlation.


CONCLUSIONS
Ultrasound is a useful tool for the evaluation of inflammatory bowel disease and many other bowel diseases. Radiologists must become familiar with the full potential of ultrasound in the evaluation of the bowel in children because the need for alternative radiation-free imaging techniques continues to grow.
1 Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Sudha A
SA
Anupindi
Mark
M
Halverson
Asef
A
Khwaja
Mihajlo
M
Jeckovic
Xing
X
Wang
Richard D
RD
Bellah
D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods