How effective is extensive nonsurgical treatment of patients with clinically active Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum in preventing surgery?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 56-60

  Bemelman, Willem A ^a,b   Ivenski, M ^a   Van Hogezand, R A ^a   Hermans, J ^a   Veenendaal, R A ^a   Griffioen, G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Exacerbation; Ileocolic resection; Medical therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; MESALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COLON STENOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEITIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; JEJUNOILEAL BYPASS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035109122     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050098     Document Type: Article

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