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Despite the likelihood of eventual disease recrudescence the possibility of a significant asymptomatic interval following intestinal resection in Crohn’s disease makes such surgery an attractive therapeutic option. This is particularly true for children and adolescents, for whom delay in growth and pubertal development is a common and disturbing complication, and for whom the adverse effects of steroids and the inconvenience of nutritional therapies frequently become unacceptable. Rates of variably defined ‘recurrence’ have been documented1–3 and influential factors have been analyzed amongst adult patients4–6,8 but not children. Such paediatric data arc necessary, as young age has been reported by some to adversely affect outcome.
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Griffiths, A.M. (1990). Factors that influence the postoperative recurrence of Crohn’s disease in childhood. In: Hadziselimovic, F., Herzog, B., Bürgin-Wolff, A. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Coeliac Disease in Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1850-4_11
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