Diagnostic ultrasound of acute colonic diverticulitis by surgical residents

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1194-1197

  Zielke, A ^a   Hasse, C ^a   Bandorski, Th ^a   Sitter, H ^a   Wachsmuth, P ^a   Grobholz, R ^a   Rothmund, M ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute colonic diverticulitis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLON; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CECAL DISEASES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EVALUATION STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOID DISEASES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031441305     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900567     Document Type: Article

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