The update of ultrasound techniques in diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
Objective: To evaluate the value of conventional abdominal ultrasound and color Doppler in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its complications. Materials and methods: 40 patients suffering from colonic symptoms were evaluated by high resolution ultrasonography and color Doppler s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2014-06-01
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| Series: | The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378603X14000308 |
| Summary: | Objective: To evaluate the value of conventional abdominal ultrasound and color Doppler in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its complications.
Materials and methods: 40 patients suffering from colonic symptoms were evaluated by high resolution ultrasonography and color Doppler scanning.
Results: The accuracy of conventional abdominal ultrasound in detecting inflammatory bowel cases was 80% and the accuracy of color Doppler in detecting the hypervascularity was 75%.
Conclusion: Conventional ultrasound is a widely available non-invasive method for imaging the alimentary gastrointestinal tract. This can provide an important contribution for diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity. Color Doppler sonography has proved to be a valuable method for the assessment of disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease. |
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| ISSN: | 0378-603X |