These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Fibrostenotic Crohn's disease.
    Author: Froehlich F, Juillerat P, Mottet C, Pittet V, Felley C, Vader JP, Gonvers JJ, Michetti P.
    Journal: Digestion; 2007; 76(2):113-5. PubMed ID: 18239402.
    Abstract:
    Crohn's disease is often complicated by gastrointestinal strictures. Postoperative recurrence at the anastomotic site is common and repeated surgical interventions may be necessary. Medical treatment may relieve active inflammation (see chapter on active luminal disease) but fibrous strictures will not respond to this. Mechanical treatment methods consist of endoscopic balloon dilation, stricturoplasty or surgical resection. Fibrostenotic Crohn's disease does not respond to medical therapy and requires endoscopic or surgical treatment.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]