Anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics and the risk of perforated colonic diverticular disease

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1267-1272

  Morris, C R ^a   Harvey, I M ^a   Stebbings, W S L ^b   Speakman, C T M ^b   Kennedy, H J ^b   Hart, A R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON MUCOSA; COLON PERFORATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0142216188     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4221     Document Type: Article

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