J Korean Radiol Soc.  1987 Feb;23(1):69-78. 10.3348/jkrs.1987.23.1.69.

Small bowel enema by use of 0.5% methylcellulose solution

• Youn EG
• Ahn SW
• Kim CS
• Juhn JR
• Chung DW

• KMID: 2359658
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.1987.23.1.69

Abstract

A total of 21 cases of small bowel enema by use of 0.5% methylcellulose solution has been tried at Department of Radiology, Inje College, Paik Hospital, Pusan from Apr. 1985 to Aug. 1986 and its results were as follows; 1. The success rate of the intubation time was about 95% (20 cases/21 cases). 2. The mean intubation time was about 14min. 3. The total mean examination time including the intubation time in small bowel enema was about 42 min, while total mean examination time in conventional per-oral follow-through small bowel series was about 175 min. 4. The advantages of small bowel enema were as follows; a. The find mucosal details were clearly seen due to the full distension of small bowel because of rapid injection of barium and methylcellulose solution through theBilbao-Dotter tube. b. Prevention of overlapping of small bowel loops. c. Dynamic study of small bowels by intermittent fluoroscopy. d. Reduction of total examination time. 5. The disadvantages of small bowel enema wereas follows; a. Difficulty in intubation technique. b. Patient discomfortness during intubation. c. Increase inradiation exposure to patient and radiologist.

MeSH Terms

Barium
Busan
Enema*
Fluoroscopy
Humans
Intubation
Methylcellulose*
Barium
Methylcellulose