Open AccessNoninvasive evaluation of active pan-ulcerative colitis with multiple strictures using Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
Author(s) -
Sampath Somanna,
Anish Bhattacharya,
Surinder Singh Rana,
Deepak Kumar Bhasin,
Rajesh Gupta,
Bhagwant Rai Mittal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.172367
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , ulcerative colitis , fluorodeoxyglucose , colonoscopy , radiology , inflammatory bowel disease , computed tomography , positron emission , perforation , tomography , disease , colorectal cancer , cancer , materials science , metallurgy , punching
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.