Clinical utility of a new endoscopic scoring system for Crohn’s disease

Figure 1 Number of patients with small intestinal lesions of Crohn’s disease according to distance from the ileocecal valve (n = 74). Sixty-two (83.8%) of 74 patients with small intestinal lesions which existed within 80 cm of the ileocecal valve on the proximal side were assessed by modified Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn’s disease (mSES-CD), whereas 37 (50.0%) patients with small intestinal lesions were assessed by SES-CD. Only two patients had a small intestinal lesion more than 80 cm from the ileocecal valve on the proximal side but no lesions within 80 cm.

Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier analysis of surgery-free survival time according to modified- (A) and Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn’s disease (B). A: Patients with a high modified Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn’s disease (mSES-CD) score showed significantly shorter surgery-free survival than low-score patients (P = 0.017, log-rank test); B: No significant correlation was seen between SES-CD score and survival-free time (P = 0.465).