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Management of Long Segment Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease

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Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory and recurrent disease. Up to 50–60% of Crohn’s disease patients will eventually require at least one surgical resection within 10 years of diagnosis, even if recent studies have suggested that the need for surgery is probably lower today due to advances in medical therapy.

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Mege, D., Michelassi, F. (2019). Management of Long Segment Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease. In: Hyman, N., Fleshner, P., Strong, S. (eds) Mastery of IBD Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16755-4_21

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