The role of small bowel endoscopy in small bowel Crohn's disease: when and how?
Intestinal Research
; : 211-217, 2016.
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ABSTRACT
Endoscopy has a crucial role in the diagnosis, management, and surveillance of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It contributes in supporting the diagnosis of IBD with the clinical history, physical examination, laboratory findings, and targeted biopsies. Furthermore, endoscopy has a significant role in assessing disease activity and distribution in treatment efficacy evaluation, post-surgical recurrence risk, and cancer surveillance in patients with long-lasting illness. Endoscopy also provides therapeutic potential for the treatment of IBD, especially with stricture dilatation and treatment of bleeding. Small bowel (SB) endoscopy (capsule endoscopy and device-assisted enteroscopy) and cross-sectional radiologic imaging (computed tomography enterography and magnetic resonance enterography) have become important diagnostic options to diagnose and treat patients with SB Crohn's disease. We reviewed the present role of SB endoscopy in patients with SB Crohn's disease.
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WPRIM
Main subject:
Physical Examination
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Recurrence
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Biopsy
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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Crohn Disease
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Treatment Outcome
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Constriction, Pathologic
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Diagnosis
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Dilatation
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Endoscopy
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Intestinal Research
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article