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1879631

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-10-3
pubmed:abstractText
Medical records of 528 consecutive patients who had a peroral small bowel examination or enteroclysis were reviewed. Clinical indications, efficacy of the small bowel examinations, and patient outcome were correlated to determine the impact of the small bowel examination on patient management. The most frequent indications were abdominal pain (19%), diarrhea (15%), obstruction (12%), bleeding (11%), postsurgical evaluation (10%), and assessment of Crohn's disease (8%). Two thirds of the studies (67%) were normal, and 33% of the examinations were abnormal, with similar results in all age groups. Small bowel obstruction (13%), miscellaneous results primarily including diffuse small bowel diseases (7%), adhesions (6%), and Crohn's disease (5%) were the most common abnormalities detected. The effects of small bowel studies on patient management were exclusion of serious pathology (67%), diagnosis that changed therapy (32%), and incidental findings (1%). Small bowel enteroclysis had a higher yield of positive examinations than the peroral small bowel examination, most likely due to patient selection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0364-2356
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Impact of the small bowel study on patient management.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article