Retrospective comparison of Computed Tomography Enterography and Magnetic Resonance Enterography in diagnosing small intestine disease.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of computed tomography enterography and magnetic resonance enterography in diagnosing small intestinal diseases.

Methods: The retrospective study comparing computed tomography enterography and magnetic resonance enterography for diagnosing diseases related to small intestine was conducted at Department of Radiology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong, China, from July 2012 to February 2014. The efficacy of computed tomography enterography and magnetic resonance enterography results were evaluated for randomly-selected cases to compare the location and characteristics of small intestinal diseases together with small bowel endoscopy and clinical pathology observations.

Prospective Blinded Comparison of Computed Tomographic Enterography and Small Bowel Endoscopy in Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Background/aims: This study investigated the value of computed tomographic enterography with new techniques, such as multi-planar reformation, curved planar reformation, and blood vessel reformation technique, in evaluation of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding by comparing computed tomographic enterography and small bowel endoscopy.

Methodology: We retrospectively evaluated 30 patients with pathologically proven obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding were excluded.