The clinical picture of uncomplicated versus complicated diverticulitis of the colon

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2474-2479

  Tursi, Antonio ^a   Brandimarte, Giovanni ^b   Giorgetti, GianMarco ^c   Elisei, Walter ^b   Maiorano, Michele ^a   Aiello, Fabio ^d  

^a Lorenzo Bonomo Hospital   (Italy)

^b Cristo Re Hospital   (Italy)

^c S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complicated diverticulitis; Endoscopy; Laboratory; Radiology; Uncomplicated diverticulitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA GLOBULIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; MESALAZINE; OROSOMUCOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 50249118561     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-0161-2     Document Type: Article

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