Article
Postoperative recurrent luminal Crohn's disease: a systematic review.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Apr 2012
De Cruz Peter, Kamm Michael A, Prideaux Lani, Allen Patrick B, Desmond Paul V
Abstract excerpt
Despite improved immunosuppressive therapy, surgical resection is still often required for uncontrolled inflammatory disease and the stenosing and perforating complications of Crohn's disease. However, surgery is not curative. A majority of patients develop disease recurrence at or above the anastomosis. Subclinical endoscopically identifiable recurrence precedes the development of clinical symptoms;...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
