Incidence Trends and Geographical Variability of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Slovenia: A Nationwide Study

Table 1

Diagnostic procedures performed at diagnosis.

	CD; ()	UC; ()	IBD-U; ()
Colonoscopy	167 (100%)	105 (100%)	7 (100%)
Terminal ileocolonoscopy	153 (90.3%)	91 (86.4%)	6 (85.8%)
Upper GI endoscopy	158 (93.2%)	81 (76.9%)	7 (100%)
Abdominal ultrasound	167 (100%)	105 (100%)	7 (100%)
Small bowel follow-through	42 (24.7%)	5 (4.7%)	0 (0%)
Scintigraphy with labeled leucocytes	21 (12.4%)	8 (7.6%)	0 (0%)
Capsule endoscopy	87 (51.3%)	11 (10.4%)	4 (57.2%)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)^+	18 (10.6%)	2 (1.9%)	2 (28.6%)
Computed tomography (CT)	5 (2.9%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

Capsule endoscopy has been available since 2006.
⁺MR enterography has been available since 2009.