Surgical Treatment of Regional Enteritis

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REGIONAL enteritis is a disease that primarily affects the small intestine but may involve any region of the gastrointestinal tract from the stomach to the sigmoid colon. Management of this condition continues to be controversial. However, in the chronic complicated phases, surgery not only offers the most satisfactory results but may be imperative.Between 1933 and June, 1958, 376 patients with regional enteritis were treated at the Lahey Clinic; 304 (80.8 per cent) were treated by surgical technics. This study concerns itself primarily with the 304 patients who were treated surgically. Two hundred and seventy-seven patients were treated by radical . . .