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We appreciate the letter sent by Drs Ustundag and Tezel1 as a reaction to our paper on the safety and efficacy of endoscopic balloon dilatation in patients with Crohn's disease.2 We would like to reply to some of the considerations raised by these authors.
First, we confirm that as far as anastomotic ileocolonic strictures is concerned endoscopic lesions suggestive of active disease do not predict worse efficacy or an increased complication rate. As outlined in …
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