Creeping fat in patients with ileo-colonic Crohn's disease correlates with disease activity and severity of inflammation: A preliminary study using energy spectral computed tomography.
Qi FengXi Tao XuYi ZhouYun Qi YanZhi Hua RanJiong ZhuPublished in: Journal of digestive diseases (2018)
The quantitative analysis of creeping fat using energy spectral CT is an effective method in inflammatory evaluation in patients with CD.
Keyphrases
- dual energy
- disease activity
- computed tomography
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- oxidative stress
- image quality
- adipose tissue
- optical coherence tomography
- ankylosing spondylitis
- positron emission tomography
- contrast enhanced
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- fatty acid
- high resolution
- mass spectrometry
- magnetic resonance