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Abscess and Fistulae in Crohn's Disease

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Journal Gut
Specialty Gastroenterology
Date 1973 Nov 1
PMID 4761606
Citations 26
Authors
D M Steinberg
W T COOKE
J Alexander-Williams
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Abstract

In a series of 360 patients with Crohn's disease 18% have developed a complication of abscess and/or fistula. Both complications can be spontaneous but more commonly occur in patients who have had a previous operation. There is a high incidence of fistula after laparotomy without resection of diseased bowel. Simple drainage of an abscess is usually followed by a fistula and fistulae do not close spontaneously. The optimal surgical treatment for fistula and for deep abscess is excision in continuity with the diseased segment of intestine.

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