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Indications

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Indications for surgery in Crohn's disease include:

  • persistent ill-health with intractable disease despite medical management
  • retardation of physical and sexual development in children
  • intestinal obstruction that does not respond to medical therapy
  • toxic dilatation of the colon
  • perforation, external fistula or abscess formation
  • periureteric inflammation causing ureteric obstruction
  • suspicion of carcinomatous change

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