[Surgical treatment of acute conditions of Crohn disease].

A conservative attitude to surgical treatment of Crohn's disease may endanger patients, lives, especially in acute situations. Indications for emergency operation and intraoperative management are subject to special rules. Resection should be minimal but terminated in a marcospically disease-free area. In case of performation, resection is mandatory; mere sewing closed is inadequate. Subtotal colectomy should be performed in cases of toxic megacolon. Abscesses should be drained using a pig-tail catheter; if the abscesses do not heal, surgery is necessary.