ArticlePediatric radiology2014
Accuracy of abdominal ultrasound and MRI for detection of Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis in children.
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of Transabdominal Ultrasound in Detecting Intestinal Inflammation in Paediatric IBD Patients-a Systematic Review.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2019Pooled it
- European Society of Paediatric Radiology abdominal imaging task force: statement on imaging in very early onset inflammatory bowel disease.Pediatric radiology · 2019Guideline
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- MR enterography grading of pediatric ileocolonic Crohn disease activity based on a single bowel segment.La Radiologia medica · 2021Article
- MRI of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Quantitative evaluation of Crohn's disease using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in children and young adults.European radiology · 2020Article
- Detecting inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease - how does ultrasound compare to magnetic resonance enterography using standardised scoring systems?Pediatric radiology · 2018Article
- Comparison of Conventional Ultrasound and Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance (MR) Enterography in Evaluation Patients with Crohn's Disease.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2018Article
- Diagnostic performance of PET/MR in the evaluation of active inflammation in Crohn disease.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2018Article
- Can ultrasound be used as the primary imaging in children with suspected Crohn disease?Pediatric radiology · 2017Article
- Role of ultrasound in colorectal diseases.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016Review
- Assessment of Inflammation in an Acute on Chronic Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Ultrasound Molecular Imaging.Theranostics · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundEndoscopy is currently the primary diagnostic technique for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children.
objectiveTo assess the accuracy of US and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease and for distinguishing Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis in comparison to a reference standard. MATERIALS AND
methodsConsecutive children with suspected IBD underwent diagnostic workup including ileocolonoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy as the reference standard, abdominal US, and MR enterography and colonography at 3 T. The protocol included a dynamic contrast-enhanced 3-D sequence. Sensitivity, specificity and kappa values were calculated for one ultrasonographer and two MRI observers.
resultsWe included 28 children (15 boys) with mean age 14 years (range 10-17 years). The diagnosis was IBD in 23 children (72%), including 12 with Crohn disease, 10 with ulcerative colitis and 1 with indeterminate colitis. For the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease the sensitivity was 55% for US and 57% (both observers) for MR entero- and colonography, and the specificity was 100% for US and 100% (observer 1) and 75% (observer 2) for MR entero- and colonography. Combined MRI and US had sensitivity and specificity of 70% and 100% (observer 1) and 74% and 80% (observer 2), respectively. With the addition of a dynamic contrast-enhanced MR sequence, the sensitivity increased to 83% and 87%. US and MRI could only distinguish between Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis when terminal ileum lesions were present.
conclusionUS and MR entero- and colonography have a high accuracy for diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease in children but cannot be used to distinguish Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis.
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