MRI in the diagnosis of small bowel disease: use of positive and negative oral contrast media in combination with enteroclysis |
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Authors: | A Rieber A Aschoff K Nüssle D Wruk R Tomczak M Reinshagen G Adler H -J Brambs |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany, DE;(2) Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany, DE |
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Abstract: | The aim of the study was to evaluate the additional findings of MRI following small bowel enteroclysis and to compare the
efficacy of negative and positive intraluminal contrast agents. Fifty patients with inflammatory or tumorous small bowel disease
were investigated by small bowel enteroclysis and consecutive MRI using breathhold protocol (T1-weighted fast low-angle shot,
T2-weighted turbo spin echo). Patients were randomly assigned to either receiving a positive oral (Magnevist, Schering, Berlin,
Germany) or a negative oral MR contrast media (Abdoscan, Nycomed, Oslo, Norway). The pattern of contrast distribution, the
contrast effect, presence of artifacts, as well as bowel wall and extraluminal changes, were determined and compared between
the contrast type using Fischer's exact test. Sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy for MRI and enteroclysis were
calculated. Twenty-seven patients had clinically proven Crohn's disease and two patients surgically proven small bowel tumours.
Magnetic resonance imaging had important additional findings as abscesses and fistulae in 20 patients. Surgically compared
sensitivities were 100 and 0 % for MRI and enteroclysis, for the detection of abscesses, and 83.3 and 17 % for the diagnosis
of fistulae, respectively. Bowel wall thickening was more reliably detected with use of positive oral contrast media without
intravenous enhancement (p < 0.001), whereas postcontrast negative oral contrast media allow for a superior detection (p < 0.001). T2-weighted sequences were necessary with use of negative oral contrast media, because loop abscesses may be masked.
Magnetic resonance imaging should be performed in all patients with suspicion of extraintestinal complications, because the
complications are more reliably detected by MRI. Negative oral contrast media show advantages with the use of intravenous
contrast but can mask loop abscesses using only T1-weighted imaging.
Received: 5 March 1999; Revised: 21 September 1999; Accepted: 3 February 2000 |
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Keywords: | : MR imaging – Gastrointestinal tract – Contrast agent – Inflammatory bowel disease – Crohn's disease |
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