Colonoscopy was repeated, which now showed rectal ulcerations and nodular lesions, pancolitis, and friability of the ileocecal valve (Figure 1); the terminal ileum could not be intubated.

The International Bowel Ultrasound Segmental Activity Score (IBUS-SAS) in the terminal ileum at diagnosis emerged as the most accurate predictor of ileocecal resection within the first year of disease ...

Located over the entire surface of the small intestine, the villus can be found from about the common bile duct to the ileocecal valve. A single layer of columnar epithelium containing capillaries ...

2.1.3 Cecal ligation and puncture procedure Under anesthesia with 1.5% pentobarbital sodium, a 1 cm abdominal incision was made to expose the cecum, which was then ligated below the ileocecal junction ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia. 2 Department of Surgery of International, Faculty of Medicine and Stomatology, Tbilisi State Medical University, ...