The reproducibility of skeletal muscle signal intensity on routine magnetic resonance imaging in Crohn's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Myosteatosis is a prognostic factor in cancer and liver cirrhosis. It can be determined noninvasively using computed tomography or, as shown recently, by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The primary aim was to analyze the reproducibility of skeletal muscle signal intensity on routine MR-enterographies, as indicator of myosteatosis, in Crohn's disease (CD) and to explore the association between skeletal muscle signal intensity at diagnosis with time to intestinal resection.

Methods

CD patients undergoing MR-enterography within 6 months from diagnosis and having a maximum of 5 years follow-up were included. Skeletal muscle signal intensity was analyzed on T1-weighted fat-saturated post-contrast images. Intra-observer and inter-observer reproducibilities were

SUBMITTER: Spooren CEGM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687168 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature