indications
Last reviewed 01/2018
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