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[Crohn disease. Medico-surgical experience. A 10-year retrospective study]
E Pérez Torres1, S Sobrino Cossío, V A García Guerrero
1Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital General de México, México, D.F.
Revista De Gastroenterologia De Mexico
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Crohn's disease is rare in Mexico. The regarding of this pathology at Gastrointestinal Unit of the General Hospital of Mexico city, between january 1980 and december 1989, is presented. There were six cases of Crohn's disease, two women (33%) and four men (66%). The definitive diagnosis was done preoperatively only in one case, the other were diagnosed postoperatively. In all, intestinal obstruction was the surgical indication. A patient died (16.6%), three cases were followed for 12 months, only two patients are still under surveillance after 15 months.