Small bowel disease: CT imaging

An Immunoglobulin G4-Related Sclerosing Disease of the Small Bowel: CT and Small Bowel Series Findings

Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related sclerosing disease is rare and is known to involve various organs. We present a case of histologically proven IgG4-related sclerosing disease of the small bowel with imaging findings on computed tomography (CT) and small bowel series. CT showed irregular wall thickening, loss of mural stratification and aneurysmal dilatation of the distal ileum. Small bowel seri...

PET/MR Versus PET/CT Imaging: Impact on the Clinical Management of Small-Bowel Crohn's Disease.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy and clinical impact of hybrid positron emission tomography [PET]/magnetic resonance-enterography [MR-E] and PET/computed tomography-enterography [CT-E] in patients with Crohn's disease [CD]. METHODS A total of 35 patients with symptomatic small-bowel CD who were scheduled to undergo operation were evaluated before operation...

Small Bowel Imaging

The small bowel, affected by a host of pathologic conditions can be difficult and challenging to image because of its length and tortuous course. However the small bowel imaging is evolving. There was a time when small-bowel follow-through (SBFT) was the primary and only method of diagnosing diseases of the small bowel. In recent years, there has been availability of a variety of techniques suc...

Small Bowel Imaging

The mesenteric small intestine is a difficult organ to examine. Long-term experience has shown that there are no shortcuts to achieving a reliable examination, and several parameters need to be respected if a confident diagnosis is to be made. These include: selection of patients, closely supervised studies, background data, image quality, familiarity with imaging findings and utilization of ra...

MR small bowel enterography: Utility of dynamic imaging in the investigation of small bowel disease