Critical evaluation: Surgery for uncomplicated diverticulitis

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 96-99

  Platell, Cameron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AIR; BLEEDING; COLON; COLOVAGINAL FISTULA; COLOVESICULAR FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PELVIS; PHLEGMON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS;

DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049136463     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04367.x     Document Type: Note

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