ReviewJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2017
Surgical Considerations in the Treatment of Small Bowel Crohn's Disease.
Review in Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preoperative Nutritional Conditioning of Crohn's Patients-Systematic Review of Current Evidence and Practice.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- Radiological insights into diverticulitis: Clinical manifestations, complications, and differential diagnosis.World journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Creeping Fat in Crohn's Disease-Surgical, Histological, and Radiological Approaches.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm to Differentiate Colon Carcinoma From Acute Diverticulitis in Computed Tomography Images.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Day-by-Day Management of the Inpatient With Moderate to Severe Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2020Article
- Inflammatory bowel disease position statement of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR): Crohn's disease.Techniques in coloproctology · 2020Review
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- Letter to the Editor: Mesenteric Lymphatic Vessel Density Is Associated with Disease Behavior and Postoperative Recurrence in Crohn's Disease.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2019Article
- Decreased CD8+CD28+/CD8+CD28- T cell ratio can sensitively predict poor outcome for patients with complicated Crohn disease.Medicine · 2017Observational
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Abstract
Surgery remains a cornerstone of the management of Crohn's disease (CD). Despite the rise of biologic therapy, most CD patients require surgery for penetrating, obstructing, or malignant complications. Optimal surgical therapy requires sophisticated operative judgment and medical optimization. Intraoperatively, surgeons must balance treatment of CD complications against bowel preservation and functional outcome. This demands mastery of multiple techniques for anastomosis and strictureplasty, accurate assessment of bowel integrity for margin minimization, and a comprehensive skillset for navigating adhesions and altered anatomy, controlling thickened mesentery, and safely managing the hostile abdomen. Outside of the operating room, a multi-disciplinary team is critical for pre-operative optimization, patient support, and medical management. Postoperatively, prevention and surveillance of recurrence remain a matter of research and debate, and medical options include older drugs with limited efficacy and tolerability versus biologic agents with greater effect sizes and shorter track records. The evidence base for current management is limited by the inherent challenges of studying a chronic disease marked by heterogeneity and recurrence, but also by a lack of prospective trials incorporating both medical and surgical therapies.
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