Controversies in medical vs surgical management of ileocecal crohn's disease

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterized by periods of relapsing luminal inflammation alternating with clinical remissions. Such chronic intestinal inflammation might lead to progressive bowel structural damage, resulting in the development of complications [1]. The Montreal classification perfectly reflects this natural history, describing a non-complicated, strictly inflammatory, CD behavior (B1 phenotype) and two complicated CD phenotypes: the stricturing CD behavior (B2) and the perforating CD behavior (B3).
Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Forum Source Type: research