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Fig. 2.1 Surgical section of small bowel from a patient with Crohn’s disease. The wall (arrows) is significantly thickened especially at the level of muscularis propria. By courtesy of Prof….

Fig. 3.1 A 17-year-old male on Adalimumab and steroids with persistent abdominal pain. Images show serial spot films from a SBFT demonstrating (a) lymphoid hyperplasia (in brackets), (a) aphthous ulcerations…

Sequence type Orientation Number of slices Slice thickness (mm) Slice gap (mm) Field of view (mm) TR (ms) TE (ms) Fat saturation Matrix Flip angle (°) Single-shot TSE-T2 (HASTE, SSFSE,…

Fig. 10.1 Segmental colitis in the setting of acute diverticulitis Infectious A number of infectious colitides can present with bloody or non-bloody diarrhea resembling IBD. These may be due to…

Fig. 6.1 (a, b) Duodenal stricture Our current understanding of UGI CD has not been systematically evaluated with regards to the true incidence, prevalence, response to therapy or the natural…

Fig. 12.1 Representative image of basal plasmacytosis in severely active chronic colitis. This image demonstrates colonic mucosa with marked crypt distortion, crypt abscesses, expansion of lamina propria by a chronic…

Fig. 11.1 (a) Normal right colon mucosa with increased lamina propria cellularity. (b) Normal left colon mucosa Lymphocytes are normally present as scattered single cells in the lamina propria of…

Fig. 21.1 (a, b, c) High-grade jejunal strictures resulting in markedly dilated proximal jejunal loops. Length of stricture/multiple strictures and degree of upstream dilation and damage make surgery a much…

Fig. 18.1 Time-to-event curve showing cumulative incidence of pouch neoplasia (pouch cancer + pouch dysplasia) in 3,203 patients with inflammatory bowel disease and restorative proctocolectomy. Reprinted with permission from Kariv R, Remzi…

Fig. 22.1 (a) Marked intrahepatic right ductal stenosis and a tightly strictured left system filled with stones. (b) Patient was dilated with a 6 mm balloon. (c) Stone extraction. (d)…