TY - JOUR
T1 - Sixty Years with Crohn's Disease
AU - Gupta, Sanjeev
AU - Hodgson, H. J.F.
PY - 1985/5/9
Y1 - 1985/5/9
N2 - To the Editor: Crohn's disease is recognized as a systemic illness with a tendency to relapse over many years. Although patients with Crohn's disease may need time off from work or may need hospitalization to overcome acute exacerbations, the majority are treated as outpatients, lead normal lives, and have an almost normal life expectancy.1 We have been following a patient who has had Crohn's disease for the past 60 years and continues to lead a normal life. A 70-year-old man first became ill in 1924 at the age of 11, when an appendectomy was complicated by a fecal fistula. An…
AB - To the Editor: Crohn's disease is recognized as a systemic illness with a tendency to relapse over many years. Although patients with Crohn's disease may need time off from work or may need hospitalization to overcome acute exacerbations, the majority are treated as outpatients, lead normal lives, and have an almost normal life expectancy.1 We have been following a patient who has had Crohn's disease for the past 60 years and continues to lead a normal life. A 70-year-old man first became ill in 1924 at the age of 11, when an appendectomy was complicated by a fecal fistula. An…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198505093121922
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198505093121922
M3 - Letter
C2 - 3990724
AN - SCOPUS:0021861088
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 312
SP - 1262
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 19
ER -
