Diverticulitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2057-

  Jacobs, Danny O ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; NAUSEA; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VOMITING; ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36148981435     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp073228     Document Type: Article

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