The management of complicated diverticulitis and the role of computed tomography

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 910-917

  Kaiser, Andreas M ^a   Jiang, Jeng Kae ^b   Lake, Jeffrey P ^b   Ault, Glenn ^b   Artinyan, Avo ^b   Gonzalez Ruiz, Claudia ^b   Essani, Rahila ^b   Beart Jr , Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER; COLON; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; STOMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; CELLULITIS; CLASSIFICATION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CELLULITIS; COLECTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17544383091     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41154.x     Document Type: Article

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