“…Among the Montreal classification features, the factors most related to surgical recurrence in this study were the ileocolic location (L3) and the penetrating behavior (B3). In the national literature, in a paper published by Albuquerque et al, who also evaluated postoperative recurrence, penetrating behavior was also associated with higher recurrence rates 5 . We also observed that the duration of the disease was more associated with recurrence, which conforms to CD's natural history, a chronic, progressive and almost invariably evolving into complications that culminate with surgical treatment.…”