The diagnostic role of MDCT enterography in small bowel lesions

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the role of MDCT enterography in the diagnosis of small bowel diseases. Patient and methods: Thirty nine patients suspected to have small bowel diseases were examined with 64 MDCT enterography. Result: MDCT enterography easily diagnosed small intestinal diseases which confirmed with histopathological results, operative data and follow up. Conclusions: MDCT can be used as a front-line imaging and one stop imaging modality for the detection of small bowel diseases. However, biopsy is still the confirmatory diagnostic method.

Keywords

• Multidetector computed tomography enterography (MDCTE)
• Three dimensional volume-rendering (3D)
• Multiplanar reformatted (MPR)
• Maximum-intensity-projection (MIP)