Pseudotumoral appearance of small bowel strictureplasty for Crohn's disease

✍ Scribed by Ian M. G. Kelly; Clive I. Bartram

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 431 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0942-8925
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00201784

✦ Synopsis

In two patients with Crohn's disease, strictureplasties had been marked operatively by a metal clip, so that definitive location on subsequent small bowel examination was possible. Each strictureplasty presented radiologically as a short annular constriction with apparently shouldered edges and parallel lumen. Similar radiological features were found in five other patients with strictureplasties, suggesting that a pseudotumoral appearance is characteristic of strictureplasty. Attention is drawn to this finding to avoid confusion with malignancy.