Hospitalization for acute diverticulitis does not mandate routine elective colectomy

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 576-583

  Broderick Villa, Gregory ^a   Burchette, Raoul J ^b   Collins, J Craig ^a   Abbas, Maher A ^a   Haigh, Philip I ^a   Wolff, Bruce G ^c   Joehl, Raymond ^c   Saclarides, Theodore J ^c   Biehl, Thomas R ^c  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Research and Evaluation   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDATORY TESTING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DRAINAGE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 21244463222     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.6.576     Document Type: Article

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