title: Particularities of Crohn's disease in pediatric patients: current status and perspectives regarding imaging modalities.
abstract: A consensus on the best imaging modality evaluating inflammatory bowel disease in the pediatric population is lacking and it is often unclear which modality to choose in specific clinical circumstances. Children with inflammatory bowel disease are exposed to ionizing radiation from multiple imaging studies performed at initial diagnosis, throughout treatment and during the follow-up period. This paper discusses the value of different imaging techniques in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease and gives a review of the literature. In addition, particular features of inflammatory bowel disease in children including the predilection of affected segments in the gastrointestinal tract are highlighted. Based on current literature knowledge, we encourage an integrative approach to the interpretation of clinical and imaging data for diagnosis and follow-up in daily clinical settings.
authors.affiliation: a 1 Medical Department, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Uhlandstr. 7, D-97980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schreiber-Dietrich
authors.affiliation: a 1 Medical Department, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Uhlandstr. 7, D-97980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany.|b 2 Département d'imagerie médicale, Clinique des Cévennes 07100 Annonay, France.
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chiorean
authors.affiliation: a 1 Medical Department, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Uhlandstr. 7, D-97980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany.|c 3 Sino-German Research Center of Ultrasound in Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China.
authors.forename: Xin-Wu
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: d 4 Barbara Braden, Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Braden
authors.affiliation: e 5 Klinikum Lüneburg, Department of Gastroenterology, Lueneburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kucharzik
authors.affiliation: f 6 Department of Pediatrics, University of Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jüngert
authors.affiliation: g 7 Department of Pediatric, Hematology & Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kosiak
authors.affiliation: h 8 Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stenzel
authors.affiliation: a 1 Medical Department, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Uhlandstr. 7, D-97980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003287:Contrast Media; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media
keywords: Crohn’s disease; MRI; children; computed tomography; guidelines; inflammatory bowel disease; pediatric; ulcerative colitis; ultrasonography