A plea for a combined medicosurgical treatment of ulcerative colitis has been made. While considerable advances in therapy have improved the results of medical treatment in the last 20 years increasing knowledge of the natural history and prognosis of ulcerative colitis has shown that proctocolectomy has been increasingly required in severe colitic attacks, in elderly subjects and in patients with total colonic involvement.
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