Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children

This comprehensive, up-to-date and extensively illustrated volume offers a multimodality approach to gastrointestinal imaging in children and infants. The role of each of the currently available imaging techniques is considered carefully, and diagnostic dilemmas are discussed and illustrated. After an initial chapter that addresses pediatric gastrointestinal imaging in the emergency setting, detailed individual chapters are devoted to the esophagus, stomach and duodenum, accessory organs of digestion, small bowel and colon. A closing chapter focuses on pediatric interventional procedures performed with imaging guidance. Against the background of rapid recent advances in imaging technology and the distinctive aspects of gastrointestinal imaging in children and infants, this volume will serve as an essential reference work for all who are engaged in the field.

1 Imaging in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Teresa Berrocal and Gloria del Pozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 The Esophagus
Ronald B. J. Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3 Stomach
Els Nijs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
4 Accessory Organs of Digestion
Rafael M. Jiménez, Susan Connolly, Johan G. Blickman,
and Yvonne L. Hoogeveen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
5 The Small Bowel
Annick S. Devos, Morteza Meradji, and Johan G. Blickman . . . . . . . . . . . 167
6 The Colon
Melanie P. Hiorns and Christine M. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7 Radiological Gastrointestinal Interventions in Childhood: A Review
Rick R. van Rijn and Johan S. Laméris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251