Ability of ultrasonography to predict the presence and location of histologic lesions in the small intestine of cats

Abstract

In a population with high disease prevalence, most cats with SI mucosal ultrasonographic lesions will have mucosal histologic lesions. Small intestinal submucosal and muscularis ultrasonographic lesions are not predictive of histologic disease in those layers, suggesting that full-thickness biopsy may not be essential in these cats. Ultrasonography may help guide decisions about biopsy type in individual cats.