Acute left colonic diverticulitis: Diagnosis and surgical indications after successful medical management of the first acute episode;Akute linksseitige Kolondivertikulitis: Diagnose und Operationsindikationen nach erfolgreicher konservativer Therapie des ersten akuten Divertikulitisschubes

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1382-1385

  Ambrosetti, P ^a   Morel, Ph ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colonic diverticulitis; Computed tomography water; Soluble contrast enema; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIATRIZOATE; ENEMA;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PELVIS ABSCESS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032409870     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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