SMALL-BOWEL IMAGING

The literature pertaining to small bowel imaging in the past year once again emphasizes the utility of cross-sectional imaging techniques in small bowel obstruction, inflammatory bowel disease, and in trauma to the bowel and mesentery, The efficacy of enteroclysis for evaluating patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding was addressed by multi ple articles, Gastrointestinal manifestations of AIDS, imaging evaluat ion of inflammatory and infectious bowel disease, and a guide to imagi ng techniques of the small bowel are also reviewed.