Diagnosis and management of diverticular disease of the colon in adults

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3110-3121

  Stollman, Neil H ^a   Raskin, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLUCAGON; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTOCOLIC FISTULA; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY FIBER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIETARY FIBER; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032707356     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00560-2     Document Type: Review

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