What is the optimal time of surgical intervention after an acute attack of sigmoid diverticulitis: Early or late elective laparoscopic resection?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1842-1848

  Reissfelder, Christoph ^a   Buhr, Heinz J ^a   Ritz, Joerg P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complicated diverticulitis; Diverticular disease; Laparoscopic sigmoid resection; Morbidity; Time of surgical intervention

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE; IOPROMIDE; SULBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845191754     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0730-z     Document Type: Article

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