Progress in surgical therapy is based upon the firm understanding of the anatomical, physiological and pathological processes involved in any specific disease entity. Each contribution must necessarily be only the addition of a brick, or at best a keystone, to…

Since 1932, when Crohn, Ginzburg and Oppenheimer conceived the concept of regional enteritis (40), the disease has been subjected to the scrutiny of accumulating clinical experience and experimental observations. Admittedly, considerable information concerning its incidence, distribution, course, therapy, and diagnosis,…