Right-sided diverticulitis: A difficult diagnosis

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 871-873

  Nirula, Raminder ^a   Greaney, Gregory ^a,b  

^a SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Sansurn Santa Barbara Medical Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CECAL DISEASES; CECUM; COLECTOMY; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030868186     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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