AIM To investigate the characteristic radiologic findings of cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis (CMUSE) which can be differentiated from other similar bowel disease and to assess their clinical behavior. METHODS Twenty pathologically and clinically confirmed CMUSE patients (males:females = 8:12; mean age: 40.4 years) between March 2002 and August 2015 from seven academic cent...

Abstract Cross-sectional imaging is of vital importance in the diagnosis and management small bowel pathology. The key modalities are CT- MR- enterography CT-E MR-E), each with characteristic advantages disadvantages various clinical settings. Major pathology includes inflammatory conditions such as IBD, infection, GVHD, celiac disease. Neoplasms relatively rare, though suspicion must remain hi...

Primary benign and malignant neoplasm of the small bowel are rare. Malignant tumours often present late symptoms resulting in a poor prognosis. Early detection of small bowel neoplasms is desirable but challenging for both clinicians and radiologists. Conventional double contrast enteroclysis was the method of choice in small bowel imaging but is increasingly being replaced by cross-sectional i...

Magnetic resonance (MR) enterography has become a fundamental tool for small bowel evaluation. Multiphasic cine imaging is a useful component of MR enterography evaluation because it provides functional information about bowel motility. Cine MR enterography can be used to evaluate for strictures and adhesions. Bowel motility evaluation has been shown to increase pathologic lesion detection in C...

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been renewed interest in small bowel imaging using a variety of radiologic or endoscopic techniques. This article gives an overview and comparison of old and new techniques used in small bowel imaging. New imaging methods as computed tomography (CT), CT enteroclysis (CTEc), CT enterography (CTEg), ultrasound (US), contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), US ent...

OBJECTIVES To determine the usefulness of MR enterography in the detection of recurrence in the ileocolonic anastomosis in patients with Crohn's disease that have undergone intestinal resection. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used MR enterography and ileocolonoscopy to study 30 patients with Crohn's disease who had undergone intestinal resection. To determine the degree of relapse, the findings at M...

ADVANTAGES OVER EXISTING TECHNOLOGY Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) was first developed in 1999 and has been in widespread use since the late 2000s. It is primarily used for investigation of the small bowel and has the advantage of being able to accurately examine the small bowel which cannot be easily reached by standard endoscopy methods. The major advantages are that it is non-invasive, safe, ...