Journal of Crohn's and Colitis (2010) 4,63–101 available at www.sciencedirect.com SPECIAL ARTICLE The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: Special situations Gert Van Assche ⁎,1, Axel Dignass ⁎,1, Walter Reinisch, C. Janneke van der Woude, Andreas Sturm, Martine De Vos, Mario Guslandi, Bas Oldenburg, Iris Dotan, Philippe Marteau, Alessandro Ardizzone, Daniel C. Baumgart, Geert D'Haens, Paolo Gionchetti, Francisco Portela, Boris Vucelic, Johan Söderholm, Johanna Escher, Sibylle Koletzko, Kaija-Leena Kolho, Milan Lukas, Christian Mottet, Herbert Tilg, Séverine Vermeire, Frank Carbonnel, Andrew Cole, Gottfried Novacek, Max Reinshagen, Epameinondas Tsianos, Klaus Herrlinger, Bas Oldenburg, Yoram Bouhnik, Ralf Kiesslich, Eduard Stange, Simon Travis, James Lindsay for the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) Received 19 August 2009; received in revised form 28 September 2009; accepted 28 September 2009 KEYWORDS Crohn's disease: post-operative recurrence; Fistula; Paediatric; Pregnancy; Psychosomatic; Extraintestinal manifestation ⁎ Corresponding authors. Van Assche is to be contacted at Division of Gastroenterology, Leuven University Hospitals, 49 Herestraat, BE 3000, Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: +32 16 34 42 25; fax: +32 16 34 44 19. Dignass, Department of Medecine I, Markus-Krankenhaus, Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse 4, DE-60431 Frankurt/Main, Germany. Tel.: +49 69 9533 2201; fax: +49 69 9533 2291. E-mail addresses:
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[email protected] (A. Dignass). 1 These authors acted as convenors of the Consensus and contributed equally to the work. 1873-9946/$ - see front matter © 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation.