[The achievement of surgery in the overall therapy plan in Crohn disease]

The analysis of 205 prospectively investigated patients with Crohn's disease under conservative (112) and operative (93) treatment with essentially comparable distribution of age and duration of the disease resulted in a significantly better outcome of the operated patients judging by the time free of recurrencies and the frequency of recurrencies for the localisation of ileocolitis and colitis. In ileitis, however, the results are nearly equal for both groups. The results warrant a more liberal indication for operation especially in those patients with involved colon.