Spectrum of disease and outcome of complicated diverticular disease

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 696-701

  Bahadursingh, Anil M ^a   Virgo, Kathy S ^a   Kaminski, Donald L ^a   Longo, Walter E ^a  

^a S LOUIS UNIV HLTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Diverticular disease; Fistula

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ENEMA;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AIR; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON FISTULA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOCOLIC FISTULA; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; DRAIN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PELVIS; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERITONITIS; PHLEGMON; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0346850982     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2003.08.019     Document Type: Article

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