Diagnosis and Management of Diverticulitis and Appendicitis

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-391

  Dominguez, Edward P ^a   Sweeney, John F ^a   Choi, Yong U ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BARIUM; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; METRONIDAZOLE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG COST; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJECTION SITE EXTRAVASATION; KIDNEY INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE COLONOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

APPENDICITIS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33746488811     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gtc.2006.05.002     Document Type: Review

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