Presentation, management and outcome of acute sigmoid diverticulitis requiring hospitalization

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 471-476

  Alvarez, Jose A ^a,b   Baldonedo, Ricardo F ^a   Bear, Isabel G ^a   Otero, Jorge ^a   Pire, Gerardo ^a   Alvarez, Paloma ^a   Jorge, Jose I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SAN AGUSTÍN   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonic diverticulitis; Diverticular disease; Fistula

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SIGMOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULITIS; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DUODENAL OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 38349070763     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111823     Document Type: Article

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