Matthew Philp, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided perspective for a HealthCentral article about strictureplasty, which is a type of surgery that some patients with Crohn’s disease need to address a stricture, or damaged and narrowed area of intestine, in their colon.
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