Clinical usefulness of double balloon enteroscopy in suspected Crohn's disease: the KASID multi-center trial.

Background/aims: The recently developed double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) may be useful to evaluate small bowel lesions in patients with suspected Crohn’s disease (CD). We investigated the findings of DBE, small bowel follow-through and abdominal CT in patients with suspected CD who could not be diagnosed with CD using conventional colonoscopy.

Methodology: Thirty patients (27 males, mean age 32.