TY - CHAP
T1 - Resectional surgery for intestinal strictures: What is state of the art?
AU - Wasmann, Karin A. T. G. M.
AU - Buskens, Christianne J.
AU - Tanis, Pieter J.
AU - Bemelman, Willem A.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Novel scientific insights and our progressing experience have enlarged the armamentarium of surgical treatment options for Crohn’s disease. It has become daily clinical practice to be able to choose between medical or surgical treatment. The natural course of Crohn’s disease often results in fibrosis and strictures. Despite the improvement of medical therapy for Crohn’s disease, to date no medical therapy for strictures exist. Those patients are destined to dilatation for short strictures but otherwise undergo stricturoplasty or resectional surgery. This chapter will focus on the technical aspects of resections for stricturing disease, discussing indications for surgery, the surgical approach and results of surgery.
AB - Novel scientific insights and our progressing experience have enlarged the armamentarium of surgical treatment options for Crohn’s disease. It has become daily clinical practice to be able to choose between medical or surgical treatment. The natural course of Crohn’s disease often results in fibrosis and strictures. Despite the improvement of medical therapy for Crohn’s disease, to date no medical therapy for strictures exist. Those patients are destined to dilatation for short strictures but otherwise undergo stricturoplasty or resectional surgery. This chapter will focus on the technical aspects of resections for stricturing disease, discussing indications for surgery, the surgical approach and results of surgery.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85064374737&origin=inward
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90578-5_17
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90578-5_17
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319905778
T3 - Fibrostenotic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
SP - 233
EP - 252
BT - Fibrostenotic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -