Diverticulitis: When and how to operate?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 435-445

  Aydin, H N ^a   Remzi, F H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diverticulitis; Operative treatment; Staging

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON LAVAGE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULITIS; METHODOLOGY;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS;

EID: 4444322796     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2004.03.001     Document Type: Review

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