A combination of bowel wall thickness and submucosa index is useful for estimating endoscopic improvement in ulcerative colitis: external validation of the Kyorin Ultrasound Criterion.

Haruka KomatsuHiromu MorikuboYoko KimuraChihiro MoueHiromi YonezawaMinoru MatsuuraJun MiyoshiTadakazu Hisamatsu

Published in: Journal of gastroenterology (2024)

External validation showed that the KUC-UC using only B mode findings without complicated calculations is a feasible and accurate sonographic criterion for estimating the EI of UC.

Keyphrases

ulcerative colitis
ultrasound guided
magnetic resonance imaging
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
optical coherence tomography
mass spectrometry
optic nerve
contrast enhanced ultrasound