Can computed tomographic gastrography and multiplanar reformatting aid the laparoscopic surgeon in planning a gastric resection? A pictorial essay.

Purpose: To assess the value and feasibility of computed tomographic gastrography and multiplanar reformatting in the preoperative evaluation of patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric resection.

Materials And Methods: Fourteen patients with gastric lesions were included in the study. A supine scan was performed after a hypotonic drug, an effervescent agent, and intravenous contrast.

A patient with anemia of obscure origin: Crohn's disease in disguise.

Background: A 65-year-old white Mediterranean male with a 10-year history of intermittent anemia, who was otherwise completely asymptomatic, was referred to our hospital in March 2004. He had a medical history of beta thalassemia and fecal occult blood tests had occasionally been positive.

Investigations: Fecal occult blood test, laboratory investigations, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy with retrograde ileoscopy, mesenteric angiography, small-bowel series, CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis, Meckel's scan, and capsule endoscopy.

Capsule endoscopy findings in patients with established and suspected small-bowel Crohn's disease: correlation with radiologic, endoscopic, and histologic findings.

Background: Little is known about the accuracy of capsule endoscopy (CE) in evaluation of small-bowel Crohn's disease.

Methods: Symptomatic eligible patients had ileocolonoscopy and biopsies from the terminal ileum, followed by small-bowel radiologic studies before CE. Endoscopic, radiologic, CE, and histologic findings were compared.