TY - JOUR
AU - Foell, Dirk
AB - Original article 81 Noninvasive assessment of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease with F-fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography and computed tomography a a b b Jan Dabritz , Niklas Jasper , Markus Loeffler , Matthias Weckesser and Dirk Foell Objectives F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)–positron respectively. The patient-based sensitivity and specificity emission tomography (PET) is a less invasive diagnostic was 97 and 100%, respectively. Interestingly, the tool and promising in detecting gastrointestinal lesions co-registration of CT did not improve the diagnostic of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. informative value. Co-registration of low-dose computed tomography (CT) Conclusion FDG–PET ± CT is especially suitable for could lead to improvements in the assessment of disease. the assessment of IBD in children. The radiation exposure Therefore, this retrospective study evaluates the value of 3–7 mSv is justified by the accuracy of this approach. of PET ± CT in pediatric IBD patients. FDG–PET seems to be a reliable tool for detecting inflamed Patients and methods We analyzed F-FDG–PET gut segments in IBD with high sensitivity and specificity. scans without (n = 24) or with combined (n = 21) low-dose The co-registration of CT had no additional benefit. Eur J CT in children (18 females, 27 males, age: 3.7–16.7 years, Gastroenterol 
TI - Noninvasive assessment of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease with  18
JO - European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
DO - 10.1097/MEG.0b013e3283410222
DA - 2011-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/noninvasive-assessment-of-pediatric-inflammatory-bowel-disease-with-18-gDv0zq4iCy
SP - 81–89-81&ndash
EP - ndash;89-81–89
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -