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From: Differentiating gastrointestinal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease- a comprehensive review

Fig. 5

:PANEL A: Coronal (A) and Axial (B, C) contrast enhanced CT enterography images show circumferential mural thickening of the terminal ileum and ileocaecal junction (arrows). There are subcentimetric mesenteric lymph nodes (short arrows, A). The patient was diagnosed to have Crohn’s disease. PANEL B: Coronal (A and B) and Axial (C) CT enterography images show multisegmental asymmetric mural thickening of the ileum (arrows). Note the engorged vasa rectae (short arrows, C) and mesenteric fat proliferation (arrow head, C). The terminal ileum is also involved (thick arrow, C) and shows mural stratification. The patient was diagnosed to have Crohn’s disease

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