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Small Bowel Resection

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Operative Strategies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Abstract

Surgical intervention in patients with Crohn’s disease is limited to the treatment of acute and chronic complications for which medical therapy is not effective. At the Cleveland Clinic, rates of surgery with disease of 10 years’ duration were 90% of patients with ileocolitis and 70% of those with only ileal involvement (1). Thus, for the vast majority of patients with Crohn’s disease involving the small bowel, surgery is unavoidable. The surgeon treating these patients must be familiar with the spectrum of complications that may require specific surgical interventions. Resection of the diseased small bowel, the subject of this chapter, is a very effective short-term treatment for most complications.

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  1. Section of General Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Fabrizio Michelassi MD (Professor and Chief) (Professor and Chief)

  2. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Jeffrey W. Milsom MD (Professor and Chief) (Professor and Chief)

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Casillas, S., Milsom, J.W. (1999). Small Bowel Resection. In: Michelassi, F., Milsom, J.W. (eds) Operative Strategies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1396-3_18

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