J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2017 09;65(3):293-298
*Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Disease, Schneider Children's Hospital, Petah Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel †Department of Radiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel ‡Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children §Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ||Pediatric Radiology Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel ¶Department of Radiology, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Malaga, Spain #Electroradiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland **Department of Radiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany ††Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ‡‡Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH §§Department of Radiology, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT ||||Department of Radiology, Schneider Children's Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel ¶¶Diagnostic Imaging Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel ##Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ***Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Disease, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Objectives: Data on the outcomes of children with perianal Crohn disease (pCD) are limited, although its presence is often used for justifying early use of biologics. We aimed to assess whether pCD in children is associated with more severe outcomes as found in adults.
Methods: Data were extracted from the ImageKids database, a prospective, multicenter, longitudinal cohort study. Read More