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Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis is the standard surgical treatment modality for ulcerative colitis patients who require colectomy. While the surgical procedure improves health-related quality of life in patients with refractory colitis, it is associated with an array of mechanical, inflammatory, and functional disorders of the pouch. Crohn’s disease of the pouch is one of the most serious inflammatory complications. The majority of those patients develop the disease after surgery (de novo Crohn’s disease). Crohn’s disease of the pouch can be classified into inflammatory, stricturing, and fistulizing phenotypes. Pouchoscopy plays a key role in the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and therapy for Crohn’s disease of the pouch.
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Shen, B. (2015). Endoscopy in Crohn’s Disease of the Pouch. In: Kozarek, R., Chiorean, M., Wallace, M. (eds) Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11077-6_15
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