Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Imaging‐related Radiation: Are We Increasing the Likelihood of Malignancy?

Abstract

Although all doses of ionizing radiation have some malignancy-inducing potential, a small but important percentage of children with IBD are exposed to particularly high doses of ionizing radiation from diagnostic tests and procedures. Physicians caring for such patients must seek to limit radiation exposure whenever possible to lessen the lifetime risk of malignancy.