Background: Surgery has played an essential role in the treatment of Crohn's disease. Emergency can reveal previously unknown complications whose treatment affects prognosis.
Purpose Of Study: Indicate the incidence of indications in emergent surgery for Crohn's disease.
Background: Crohn's disease management represents a major problem in gastroenterology and general surgery because it affects young subjects and has a major impact on their quality of life. The aims of our study were to identify the indications for surgery in Crohn's disease, the results and the complications of surgery in our series, and to identify possible predictive factors of recurrence and postoperative morbidity.
Methods: A retrospective descriptive study including 38 cases of patients with Crohn's disease who underwent surgical treatment in the department of surgery in Mongi Slim Hospital, during the period between January 1992 and December 2011 was performed.
Background: Solid pseudopapillary tumors of the pancreas are rare. The diagnosis is difficult because of its clinical and radiological polymorphism. It was described in the literature that this entity can be associated with congenital malformation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome is an uncommon and benign defecation disorder. Occidental series are scarce and to our knowledge, Tunisian data are not available.
Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical, endoscopic and histological spectrum of the solitary rectal ulcer syndrome.
Background: In recent years, multidisciplinary therapeutic management of rectal cancer has evolved. This progress had interest radio and chemotherapy.
Aim: To describe the main spots of the progress in the therapeutic strategies of the disease, surgical techniques and standardization of these techniques, particularly regarding locoregional extension in the mesorectum.