Sonography of the small intestine

Kim Nylund, Svein Ødegaard, Trygve Hausken, Geir Folvik, Gülen Arslan Lied , Ivan Viola, Helwig Hauser, Odd Helge Gilja

ARTICLE, World Journal of Gastroenterology, March, 2009

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Abstract

In the last two decades, there has been substantial development in the diagnostic possibilities for examining the small intestine. Compared with computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, capsule endoscopy and double-balloon endoscopy, ultrasonography has the advantage of being cheap, portable, flexible and user- and patient-friendly, while at the same time providing the clinician with image data of high temporal and spatial resolution. The method has limitations with penetration in obesity and with intestinal air impairing image quality. The flexibility ultrasonography offers the examiner also implies that a systematic approach during scanning is needed. This paper reviews the basic scanning techniques and new modalities such as contrast-enhanced ultrasound, elastography, strain rate imaging, hydrosonography, allergosonography, endoscopic sonography and nutritional imaging, and the literature on disease-specific findings in the small intestine. Some of these methods have shown clinical benefit, while others are under research and development to establish their role in the diagnostic repertoire. However, along with improved overall image quality of new ultrasound scanners, these methods have enabled more anatomical and physiological changes in the small intestine to be observed. Accordingly, ultrasound of the small intestine is an attractive clinical tool to study patients with a range of diseases.

Published

World Journal of Gastroenterology

• Volume: 15
• Number: 11
• Pages: 1319–1330
• Date: March 2009
• Project: MedViz
• URL: http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/15/1319.pdf

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@article {nylund2009sonography,
	author = {Kim Nylund and Svein {\O}degaard and Trygve Hausken and Geir Folvik and Gülen Arslan Lied 
	and Ivan Viola and Helwig Hauser and Odd Helge Gilja}
	journal = {World Journal of Gastroenterology},
	number = {11},
	pages = {1319--1330},
	title = {Sonography of the small intestine},
	url = {http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/15/1319.asp},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2009},
	month = {3],
	abstract = {In the last two decades, there has been substantial development in
  the diagnostic possibilities for examining the small intestine. Compared with
  computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, capsule endoscopy and
  double-balloon endoscopy, ultrasonography has the advantage of being cheap,
  portable, flexible and user- and patient-friendly, while at the same time
  providing the clinician with image data of high temporal and spatial
  resolution. The method has limitations with penetration in obesity and with
  intestinal air impairing image quality. The flexibility ultrasonography offers
   the examiner also implies that a systematic approach during scanning is
   needed. 
   This paper reviews the basic scanning techniques and new modalities such as
   contrast-enhanced ultrasound, elastography, strain rate imaging,
   hydrosonography, allergosonography, endoscopic sonography and nutritional
   imaging, and the literature on disease-specific findings in the small
   intestine. Some of these methods have shown clinical benefit, while others
   are under research and development to establish their role in the diagnostic
   repertoire. However, along with improved overall image quality of new
   ultrasound scanners, these methods have enabled more anatomical and
   physiological changes in the small intestine to be observed. Accordingly,
   ultrasound of the small intestine is an attractive clinical tool to study
   patients with a range of diseases.},  
  URL = {http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/15/1319.pdf},

  month = {March},

}