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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 65-66 |
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Noninvasive evaluation of active pan-ulcerative colitis with multiple strictures using Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
Sampath Santhosh1, Anish Bhattacharya1, Surinder Singh Rana2, Deepak Kumar Bhasin2, Rajesh Gupta3, Bhagwant Rai Mittal1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
3 Department of General Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence Address:
Sampath Santhosh
Institute of Nuclear Imaging and Molecular Medicine, Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Specialty Hospital, Omandurar Government Estate, Anna Salai, Chennai - 600 002, Tamil Nadu
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.172367
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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by waxing and waning inflammation that changes in severity and extent and may progress to neoplasia, especially in the presence of strictures. When patients have nonnegotiable strictures or severe inflammation with ulcers, colonoscopy is difficult and carries the risk of perforation. The authors present a patient with pan-UC with multiple strictures, in whom fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography was used to noninvasively evaluate the extent and severity of the disease. |
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