Endoscopic Balloon Dilation for Crohn’s Disease-Associated Strictures
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Endoscopic Balloon Dilation for Crohn’s Disease-Associated Strictures
Management of intestinal strictures associated with Crohn's disease (CD) is clinically challenging despite advanced medical therapy directed toward mucosal healing to positively influence the natural course of CD-associated complications. Although medical therapy is available for inflammatory strictures, therapy of fibrostenotic strictures is the domain of surgery and endoscopy. Endoscopic ball...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Endoscopy
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2234-2400,2234-2443
DOI: 10.5946/ce.2017.147