Recommendations for Reporting Imaging Findings in Small Bowel Crohn Disease

Target Audience: Gastroenterologists, radiologists

Background and Objective

A multisociety expert panel performed a systematic review of findings from computed tomography enterography (CTE) and magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) in patients with small bowel Crohn disease (CD) and proposed consensus recommendations for standardizing interpretation and reporting.

Key Recommendations

Strong Recommendations

• Small bowel CD should be read as active inflammatory disease in patients with known CD when there is mural hyperenhancement and wall thickening or when there is asymmetric inflammat…