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ReviewAnnals of gastroenterology2014

Recent developments in the surgical management of perianal fistula for Crohn's disease.

Cristina B Geltzeiler, Nicole Wieghard, Vassiliki L Tsikitis

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Review in Annals of gastroenterology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Long-term outcomes of 'temporary' defunctioning in patients with severe perianal Crohn's disease.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025
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  9. Perianal Fistula; from Etiology to Treatment - A Review.Middle East journal of digestive diseases · 2024
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  17. Prevalence of anal fistula in the United Kingdom.World journal of clinical cases · 2019
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  20. Management of Crohn's disease.Archives of disease in childhood · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cristina B GeltzeilerDepartment of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, USA.
Nicole WieghardDepartment of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, USA.
Vassiliki L TsikitisDepartment of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perianal manifestations of Crohn's disease (CD) are common and, of them, fistulas are the most common. Perianal fistulas can be extremely debilitating for patients and are often very challenging for clinicians to treat. CD perianal fistulas usually require multidisciplinary and multimodality treatment, including both medical and surgical approaches. The majority of patients require multiple surgical interventions. CD patients with perianal fistulas have a high rate of primary non-healing, surgical morbidity, and high recurrence rates. This has led to constant efforts to improve surgical management of this disease process.

Indexed as

Crohn’s diseasefistulaperianalperirectalsurgery

Identifiers

PMID25331917
PMCPMC4188928

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