T2-weighted MR can depict Crohn disease lesions and help assess mural and transmural inflammation with the same accuracy as gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted MR. Combination of gadolinium-enhanced T1- and T2-weighted sequences is useful in the assessment of Crohn disease.

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Our results indicate that a subpopulation of obese patients has a significant low lumbar BMD than expected for age. Thus, a careful characterisation of skeletal metabolism might be useful in all obese individuals to avoid fragility fractures later in life.

This article reports the guidelines for gastric cancer staging and treatment developed by the GIRCG, and contains comprehensive indications for clinical management, including radiological, endoscopic, surgical, pathological, and oncological paths.