Commentary: PET/MR Versus PET/CT Imaging: Impact on the Clinical Management of Small-Bowel Crohn’s Disease

Frontiers in Medicine

Sophie James¹ 

关键词: Crohn’;    s disease;    fibrotic structures;    strictures;    MRI;    PET imaging;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2017.00059

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the gastrointestinal tract. A proportion of patients will suffer fibrotic narrowing in their inflammatory strictures. It is not currently possible to predict which patients will develop scarring, and no validated mechanism exists to detect the occurrence of fibrosis. Perhaps as a consequence, patients can present with obstructive symptoms after significant fibrotic damage has already accumulated (1).

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