Small Bowel Imaging in Managing Crohn’s Disease Patients

Table 5

Comparison of diagnostic yield or sensitivity in cross-sectional imaging and endoscopy in diagnosing small bowel Crohn’s disease; CTE: computed tomography enterography; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging.

Author	Year of publication	N	Capsule endoscopy	Comparator (cross-sectional imaging)		Statistical significance
Eliakim et al. [9]	2004	35	77%	CTE	20%	𝑃<0.05
Voderholzer et al. [10]	2005	41	25/41 (61%)	CTE	12/41 (29%)	𝑃=0.004
Hara et al. [11]	2006	17	12/17 (71%)	CT	9/17 (53%)	n.s.
Solem et al. [12]	2008	28	83%	CTE	83%	n.s.
Albert et al. [13]	2005	52	25/27 (93%)	MRI	21/27 (78%)	n.s.
Golder et al. [14]	2006	18	12/18 (66%)	MRI	1/18 (5%)	𝑃=0.016
Jensen et al. [15]	2011	93	100%	MRI and CTE	81% (MRI) 76% (CTE)	𝑃<0.05 (for proximal small bowel)