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Anorectal Crohn’s Disease

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Anorectal Crohn’s disease includes both lesions of the perianal skin and the inner lining of the anal canal and lower rectum and pathological formations originating from these regions related to Crohn’s disease.

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Buchmann, P. (1998). Anorectal Crohn’s Disease. In: Marti, MC., Givel, JC. (eds) Surgical Management of Anorectal and Colonic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10169-8_25

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