Outcome after emergency surgery for acute perforated diverticulitis in 200 cases

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 361-366

  Vermeulen, Jefrey ^a   Akkersdijk, George P ^b   Gosselink, Martijn P ^a   Hop, Wim C J ^c   Mannaerts, Guido H ^d   Van Der Harst, Erwin ^a   Coene, Peter Paul L O ^a   Weidema, Wibo F ^b   Lange, Johan F ^c  

^a Zuiderziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hartmann's procedure; Mortality; Perforated diverticulitis; Primary anastomosis; Reintervention; Surgeon's experience

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HARTMANN PROCEDURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLOSTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34948882298     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107719     Document Type: Article

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