Practice parameters for sigmoid diverticulitis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 939-944

  Rafferty, Janice ^b   Shellito, Paul ^b   Hyman, Neil H ^a   Buie, W Donald ^b  

^a FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET THERAPY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; X RAY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; SIGMOID DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745938780     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0578-2     Document Type: Review

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