TY - JOUR AU - Ishikawa, Daisuke AU - Ando, Takafumi AU - Watanabe, Osamu AU - Ishiguro, Kazuhiro AU - Maeda, Osamu AU - Miyake, Nobuyuki AU - Nakamura, Masanao AU - Miyahara, Ryoji AU - Ohmiya, Naoki AU - Hirooka, Yoshiki AU - El-Omar, Emad M. AU - Goto, Hidemi PY - 2011 DA - 2011/03/31 TI - Images of colonic real-time tissue sonoelastography correlate with those of colonoscopy and may predict response to therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis JO - BMC Gastroenterology SP - 29 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Real-time tissue sonoelastography (EG) is a new non-invasive technique that visualizes differences in tissue strain. We evaluated the usefulness of EG in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) by investigating the association between EG and colonoscopic findings and disease activity. SN - 1471-230X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-11-29 DO - 10.1186/1471-230X-11-29 ID - Ishikawa2011 ER -