Imaging of the small bowel: Crohn’s disease in paediatric patients

Figure 4 Longitudinal view of the terminal ileum in a 13-year-old boy with active Crohn’s disease. The bowel wall is thickened and shows increase in Color Doppler signals denoting inflammatory hyperemia (A). Note in (B) the fibrofatty proliferation of the surrounding mesentery which appears hyperechoic and the enlarged mesenteric lymph-nodes.