CT of the Small Bowel: Inflammatory Disease
CT of the Small Bowel: Inflammatory Disease |
CTA of the Small Bowel: Scan Protocol Oral contrast
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CT/CTA of the Small Bowel: Applications Scan Protocol Selection
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CT/CTAngiography Protocol: Small Bowel Arterial Phase (64MDCT and Beyond)  |
CT Enterography: Crohn’s Disease Active crohn’s disease findings include
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Crohn’s Disease (Active)  |
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Crohn’s Disease  |
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Crohn’s Disease with Comb Sign and Fibrofatty Spread  |
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Crohn's with Comb Sign  |
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Duodenal Stricture due to Crohn’s Disease  |
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Small Bowel Obstruction due to Crohn’s Disease  |
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Crohn’s with High Grade Dysplasia in Terminal Ileum  |
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Acute Abdomen  |
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Jejunal Diverticulitis  |
“While diverticulitis of the small bowel is a rare cause of inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract, this condition is associated with a high mortality, which in part is due to a delay in the correct diagnosis. The CT findings in jejunal diverticulitis, although not specific, may suggest this diagnosis. The CT findings in ileal diverticulitis can probably not be differentiated from those of other inflammatory processes in the right lower quadrant. Diverticulitis of the small bowel should be included in the differential diagnosis of intraabdominal inflammatory processes.” Small-bowel diverticulitis: CT findings S Greenstein, B Jones, EK Fishman, JL Cameron and SS Siegelman American Journal of Roentgenology. 1986;147: 271-274 |
“Jejunal diverticula have characteristic findings on CT, appearing as discrete round or ovoid, contrast-, fluid-, or air-containing structures outside the expected lumen of the small bowel, with a smooth, barely discernible wall and no recognizable small bowel folds. Not infrequently, these structures are seen to communicate directly with an adjoining small-bowel loop, a feature best recognized by scrolling the images. Our experience suggests that jejunal diverticulosis can often be recognized on the basis of the characteristic CT features of this condition.” Jejunal Diverticulosis: Findings on CT in 28 Patients Florian Fintelman, Marc S. Levine Stephen E. Rubesin AJR 2008; 190:1286–1290 |
Ileal Diverticulitis  |
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