Tomohiko Sasaki, Reiko Kunisaki, Hiroto Kinoshita, Hideaki Kimura, Teruaki Kodera, Akinori Nozawa, Akiho Hanzawa, Naomi Shibata, Hiromi Yonezawa, Eiji Miyajima, Satoshi Morita, Shoichi Fujii, Kazushi Numata, Katsuaki Tanaka, Masanori Tanaka, Shin Maeda
BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease (CD) is routinely evaluated using clinical symptoms, laboratory variables, and the CD activity index (CDAI). However, clinical parameters are often nonspecific and do not precisely reflect the actual activity of CD small-intestinal lesions. The purposes of this prospective study were to compare color Doppler ultrasound (US) findings with histological findings from surgically resected specimens and confirm the hypothesis that color Doppler US can distinguish tissue inflammation and fibrosis...
June 14, 2014: BMC Research Notes