Diverticulitis: When to treat medically, when surgically?;Divertikulitis: Wann konservativ, wann operativ behandeln?

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 104, Issue 50, 2007, Pages

  Germer, Christoph Thomas ^a   Groß, Volker ^b  

^a KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM ST MARIEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Diverticulitis; Medical treatment; Staging; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTESTINE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 38049035537     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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