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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mesalazine as a maintenance treatment in Crohn’s disease
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Editor,—We read with interest the occasional viewpoint by Sahmoud and Mary (Gut1997;40:284–5). As is too often the case in such reviews, the authors have failed to identify all of the relevant literature pertinent to the topic: the maintenance of remission or prevention of recurrence of Crohn’s disease. For example, with regard to azathioprine, rather than two trials of treatment, actually six trials (including the NCCDS Parts I …