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Small-bowel obstruction has been the most common indication for surgical intervention in Crohn's disease. If, however, obstruction relents without surgery, new programs of management may reduce or eliminate the need for resection. Over 7 years, 25 of 26 patients were relieved of an index episode of ileal obstruction--in most cases aided by a small-bowel tube and intravenous ACTH. They were then maintained on medical therapy, sulfasalazine (SASZ) alone in seven, SASZ and intermittent prednisone in 18, and then 6-mercaptopurine with or without SASZ in 14 of those 18. Seven patients have had no recurrence of obstruction after an average follow-up of 52 months. Recurrent obstruction occurred 52 times in 18 patients over the next 16-106 months; in all the obstruction was again relieved nonoperatively. Twelve patients underwent elective surgery, for recurrent obstruction in nine. Eight months seemed to offer a useful cutoff criterion for the likelihood of recurrence. When recurrence of obstruction took place within 8 months, surgery was ultimately required in six of seven patients. In contrast, patients who weathered the first 8 months without obstruction did well; only three of 11 ultimately required resection. Of 18 patients without recurrent obstruction for 8 months, only five were eventually operated upon, two for other indications; in 11 of the 13 patients who underwent no operation, the quality of life was excellent or good. We conclude that if the initial episode of small-bowel obstruction can be reversed, subsequent maintenance therapy including SASZ, and/or 6-mercaptopurine with an intermittent liquid diet in some patients eliminates or postpones the need for resection without compromise of the quality of life.
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PMID:Prognosis for nonoperative management of small-bowel obstruction in Crohn's disease. 630 93

A case of carcinoma of the small intestine arising in a patient with regional enteritis (Crohn's disease) of the ileum is reported. The patient, a 54-year-old woman, had a 21-year history of regional enteritis which was treated intermittently with sulfasalazine and prednisone. Segmental resections of the ileum had been performed on two previous occasions. Because of recurrent low-grade intestinal obstruction, another segment of ileum was resected. The bowel demonstrated the typical gross and histologic appearance of regional enteritis. Histologic examination also disclosed a carcinoma that was confined to the ileal mucosa. This case is the first reported in which a small bowel carcinoma arising in regional enteritis has been found only in the mucosa. Adjacent to the carcinoma, the mucosa showed varying degrees of dysplasia consistent with the "precancerous" changes that have been described in inflammatory bowel disease. Using a peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunoperoxidase technique, carcinoembryonic antigen was identified in normal, hyperplastic, dysplastic, and carcinomatous mucosa, but the most intense staining was seen in hyperplastic and dysplastic cells. Carcinoembryonic staining, however, did not aid in differentiating between hyperplasia, dysplasia, and carcinoma because of an overlap in staining frequency and intensity.
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PMID:Intramucosal carcinoma of the small intestine arising in regional enteritis (Crohn's disease). Report of a case studied for carcinoembryonic antigen and review of the literature. 637 85

A case of acute small bowel obstruction is presented occurring five months after blunt abdominal trauma due to a seat-belt injury. The problem of early diagnosis is discussed. With the increasing use of seat-belts, clinicians should be aware of this condition as part of the 'Seat-Belt Syndrome'. Histopathology of the affected segment of ileum was found to closely resemble Crohn's Disease.
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PMID:Blunt abdominal trauma simulating Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum. 659 25

Complications after ineffective medical management are indications for surgical treatment in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Immediate intervention is necessary in perforation, bleeding and intestinal obstruction, but abscess, fistulation, chronic bowel obstruction and an inflammatory tumor need also surgery without longer delay. Acute ileitis terminalis imitating acute appendicitis is an exceptional case of Crohn's disease. Local recurrence, severe abdominal pain, diarrhoea, retardation of growth and development, and risk of malignant change may be reasons for elective surgery. As development of recurrence after operation is frequent and the results of colectomy and proctocolectomy with ileostomy are not always satisfactory some caution to surgery in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in childhood is advisable.
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PMID:[Surgical indications in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in childhood]. 660 Dec 4

During a recent 7-year period, 11 children between the ages of 6 and 15 years underwent intestinal resection for terminal ileal and right colon Crohn's disease. The indications for surgery included: failure of medical therapy in 8 patients, growth retardation in 4, stricture formation in 5, abscess formation in 2, the presence of an enterocutaneous fistula in 2, and intestinal obstruction in 1. All children underwent resection of the grossly involved bowel. The sites of involvement were the terminal ileum and the ileocecal valve in 7 patients and the terminal ileum, cecum, and proximal right colon in 4. There were no postoperative complications or mortality. The follow-up in these patients ranged from 1 to 7 years with a mean of 2.6 years. Thus far, all patients are clinically well and off all medications. Only one questionable recurrence was seen in a teenage girl who was readmitted 3 years after a resection of her terminal ileum and cecum for Crohn's disease. A recent small-bowel series 4 years after the recurrence shows no evidence of Crohn's disease. The initial excellent results with resectional therapy in this small subgroup of children with Crohn's disease has prompted us to consider earlier surgical intervention in these patients.
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PMID:The surgical management of terminal ileal and right colon Crohn's disease in children. 664 1

A woman suffering more than ten years with Crohn disease, makes one day a small intestinal obstruction. She undergoes a laparotomy in which a resection of 30 cm terminal ileum is done. Surprisingly the anatomo-pathologic diagnosis is adenocarcinoma between the Crohn's inflammatory lesions. Weedom and Greenstein have proven that Crohn disease and colon carcinoma are related in their follow-ups. But to find such a relationship between Crohn and carcinoma of the small intestine tumours is very small: +/- 0,3/100.000 in a year and so the cases in literature too. We have found 38 cases with enough information. This people with Crohn and carcinoma of the small intestine have an age of 43 years and more than 10 years Crohn symptoms before tumour was found. The tumours are localized in more than 70% in the ileum; 85% are adenocarcinoma. Such differences in localization, age and anatomopathology between Crohn's patients and a normal population let us presume that malign degeneration in Crohn disease is more than accidentally. A casual connection can't be given. For therapeutic use a resection is to prefer because many dysplasias are found in bypass segments.
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PMID:[Malignant degeneration of the intestine in Crohn's disease]. 665 16

The aim of this study was to describe and to analyze the results of surgery for Crohn's disease in a retrospective series of 155 operations performed in 124 patients from 1949 to 1981 by the same surgical team. Indications for surgical treatment were as follows: acute complications (25 p. 100), intestinal obstruction (35 p. 100), systemic inflammatory manifestations (40 p. 100). Three patients died postoperatively and complications necessitated a reintervention in 10 other subjects. Surgical indications and late postoperative prognosis were significantly different in patients with right-sided bowel lesions (i. e. terminal ileitis, ileocolitis of the ascending colon) and in those with left colonic involvement (i.e. colitis of the whole or descending colon, rectitis and anoperineal lesions). Surgery was required because of failure of medical treatment in 73 p. 100 of Crohn's disease affecting the left colon and in 17 p. 100 of the right-sided lesions (p less than 0.001). After resection a recurrence rate after 1 year and 3 years of respectively 50 and 62 p. 100 was observed in the left colonic disease group and in 5 and 23 p. 100 of the cases respecting the left colon. Finally 31 reoperations were necessary; no surgical mortality occurred in 12 patients with right-sided lesions whereas 5 among 19 patients with involvement of the left colon died postoperatively. These results: a) confirm the high postoperative rate of recurrence (or relapse) after surgical bowel resection for Crohn's disease (especially when the left colon is affected), b) emphasize the need for the surgeon to be very cautious when determining the extent of resection.
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PMID:[Crohn disease. Results of surgical treatment]. 666 22

The value of double contrast small bowel enema via duodenal intubation using barium sulphate and methylcellulose as contrast media was assessed in 250 patients. In cases of small bowel obstruction it represented the first-line investigation after a plain abdominal film. It was performed electively in patients of painful bowel syndrome, in cases of malabsorption, in cases of endoscopically or radiologically diagnosed colitis and in patients with Crohn's disease. On the basis of our results we believe double contrast small bowel enema to be the most reliable investigation in the localization and identification of small bowel lesions.
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PMID:[Double-contrast study of the small intestine using enteroclysis. Considerations on the results in 250 patients]. 667 37

The role of ultrasound scanning in the diagnosis of cancer of the colon under emergency conditions such as intestinal obstruction, perforation or, more rarely, heavy colonic bleeding, is discussed. In any case, ultrasound scanning can quickly and rationally indicate choices for further assessment when possible. Characteristic ultrasonic images are described, and possible differential diagnoses are discussed briefly. The method seems significantly sensitive, although nonspecific, as it can give analogous images in cases of inflammatory pseudo-tumors, Crohn's disease, and adult intussusception.
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PMID:Ultrasonic detection of colonic carcinoma in emergency. 669 43

Eighty-five patients aged 40 or less who presented with colorectal carcinoma over a 32-year period were reviewed. The incidence was 2.5 per cent of all patients with large bowel cancer (n = 3426). Predisposing causes included familial polyposis (eight patients), panproctocolitis (ulcerative, one; Crohn's, one) and irradiation (one); four patients were pregnant. One-third of the patients presented as emergencies, and 43 per cent of these had intestinal obstruction. Five-year survival rates were 41 per cent overall and 59 per cent after 'curative' resection. Survival was equivalent both for elective and emergency admission and for mucinous carcinomas (n = 16) and those non-mucinous carcinomas of moderate histological differentiation. Five-year survival rates were poorer when the history was less than three months in duration (20 per cent vs. 45 per cent: P = 0.02) and for rectal and rectosigmoid tumours than colonic tumours (31 per cent vs. 50 per cent: P = 0.05). Radical resection is indicated when feasible: four of five patients with involvement of adjacent viscera and four of six patients with resectable recurrence survived beyond 10 years. The outcome is similar to that at all ages, any unfavourable pathological features being balanced by improved survival following emergency operations.
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PMID:Carcinoma of the large bowel in the first four decades. 670 77


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