## Background: Assessing perianal disease activity is important for the treatment and prognosis of crohn's disease (cd) patients, but the diagnostic accuracy of the activity indices has not yet been established. the aim of this study was to determine the accuracy and agreement of the fistula draina
Assessment of the extension and the inflammatory activity in Crohn’s disease: comparison of ultrasound and MRI
✍ Scribed by María J. Martínez; Tomás Ripollés; José M. Paredes; Esther Blanc; Luis Martí-Bonmatí
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0942-8925
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