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ReviewTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology2018

Intestinal ultrasound and management of small bowel Crohn's disease.

Torsten Kucharzik, Christian Maaser

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Review in Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Torsten KucharzikLüneburg Hospital, Bögelstr. 1, 21339 Lüneburg, Germany.
Christian MaaserLüneburg Hospital, Bögelstr. 1, 21339 Lüneburg, Germany christian.maaser@klinikum-lueneburg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As Crohn's disease (CD) is predominantly located within the small bowel, imaging of the small bowel plays an intriguing role in the primary diagnosis as well as in the monitoring of patients with CD. Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) offers several advantages over endoscopy and other imaging modalities. Obvious advantages of IUS include noninvasiveness, rapid availability and cost effectiveness. IUS has been shown to have high accuracy in detecting small bowel CD and determining intra- and extramural complications such as stenoses, fistulae and abscesses. IUS has also been shown to be highly effective in determining postoperative disease recurrence and in follow up of patients under treatment. The following review summarizes current developments in the use of IUS for the detection of small bowel lesions and complications. The aim of this review is to suggest algorithms on how to use IUS in managing patients with small bowel CD in clinical practice. Suggested applications on the use of high frequency IUS in CD are extended by discussing new developments such as contrast-enhanced ultrasonography and elastography.

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CEUSCrohn’s diseaseelastographyintestinal ultrasoundSICUSsmall bowelultrasonography

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PMID29881463
PMCPMC5987904

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