title: Genital and reproductive organ complications of Crohn disease: technical considerations as it relates to perianal disease, imaging features, and implications on management.
abstract: A relatively large proportion of patients with Crohn disease (CD) develop complications including abscess formation, stricture, and penetrating disease. A subset of patients will have genital and reproductive organ involvement of CD, resulting in significant morbidity. These special circumstances create unique management challenges that must be tailored to the activity, location, and extent of disease. Familiarity with the epidemiology, pathogenesis, imaging features, and treatment strategies for patients with genital CD can aid imaging diagnoses and guide appropriate patient management. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the spectrum of CD in the genital tract and reproductive organs and discuss the complex management strategies in these patients as it relates to imaging.
  
  
  
  Given the impact on patient outcome and treatment planning, familiarity with the epidemiology, pathogenesis, imaging features, and treatment of patients with genital Crohn disease can aid radiologic diagnoses and guide appropriate patient management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 100 Hitchcock Way, Manchester, NH, 03104, USA. Steven.e.Kammann@hitchcock.org.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kammann
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic-Arizona, 13400 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menias
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic-Arizona, 13400 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Mariam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moshiri
authors.affiliation: Mallinkrodt Institute of Radiology, 510 S Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Cary
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, John Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Sheikh Zayed Tower, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Bashar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Safar
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, 11thFloor, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brandes
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Radiology, University of Utah, 50 N Medical Dr., Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.
authors.forename: Akram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shaaban
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Indiana University, 550 N. University Blvd. Rm 0663, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
authors.forename: Kumar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sandrasegaran
mesh_terms: D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
keywords: Crohn Disease; Genital; Reproductive Crohn disease