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Posted 4/15/2011 4:01 PM (GMT 0)
Today I had an Upper GI with Small Bowel Follow through. The radiologist who was doing the procedure said the last part of my small intestine looked suspicious and inflammed. The barium wasn't feeding through that intestinal portion properly. However, I had a colonoscopy 2 weeks ago and the biopsies didn't show anything abnormal.

I thought the colonoscopy entered into the last part of the small intestine, so how could a colonoscopy be negative, but a small bowel series be potentially positive for Crohn's?
Posted 4/15/2011 4:18 PM (GMT 0)
I think it's kind of tricky to understand what the radiologist is saying when he says "last part of small bowel." Did he specifically mean the terminal ileum?

I'm also not sure if all GIs successfully get into the terminal ileum during a colonoscopy.
Posted 4/15/2011 4:21 PM (GMT 0)
He said "last part of the small intestine." I assume that means the Terminal Ileum, right?
Posted 4/15/2011 4:35 PM (GMT 0)
Most colonoscopies can only get a few inches into the small bowel. So there is still a lot of "the last part of the small bowel" to be examined.
Posted 4/15/2011 4:57 PM (GMT 0)
Never assume what anyone means when they say something. I hope the radiologist wrote a detailed report for the GI. Hopefully on that report he will use more specific language to describe what he saw.
Posted 4/15/2011 5:33 PM (GMT 0)
I reread the colonoscopy report. The level of insertion was ileum to cecum. The illeum was "grossly normal." All biopsies taken were normal.

The radiologist who did my small bowel series said he found indications of an "inflammatory disease" in the "last part of the small intestine." Is the last part of the small intestine the same thing as the ileum? IF so, then why would a colonoscopy give different results than the small bowel barium?

What does the doc mean when he said the barium wasn't flowing through that last part of my small intestine properly? Is that an indication of a disease process being present?

When looking at the last part of my small intestine, that section looked sort of wispy and fuzzy, unlike the remainder of my small intestine which was a strong solid block of color. Not sure what this means.

Post Edited (kdlalib) : 4/15/2011 12:15:08 PM (GMT-6)

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