Abstract
Conclusions: The majority of strictures in CD patients treated by surgery are consistent with a mixed type inflammation (acute inflammation plus fibrosis). The presence of stratified BS pattern shows a significantly higher degree of fibrosis while the evidence of high mural signal intensity on T2-weighted fatsaturated images on MRI reflects histological features of acute inflammation. Even if the ideal definition of the type of the strictures in CD still remains significantly far to be obtained, the combined use of BS and MRI can offer useful information in a sub-group of patients needing surgery for complicating CD.
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