Steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and sigmoid diverticular abscess perforation in rheumatic conditions

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 588-590

  Mpofu, S ^a   Mpofu, C M A ^b   Hutchinson, D ^a   Maier, A E ^c   Dodd, S R ^b   Moots, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGMOID DIVERTICULAR ABSCESS PERFORATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ABSCESS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 1942468044     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.010355     Document Type: Article

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