Emergency surgery for complicated acute diverticulitis

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-202

  Issa, N ^a,b   Dreznik, Z ^b   Dueck, D S ^c   Arish, A ^b   Ram, E ^b   Kraus, M ^c   Gutman, M ^a,b   Neufeld, D ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute diverticulitis; Complications of acute diverticulitis; Emergency surgery of acute diverticulitis; Outcome of acute diverticulitis; Recurrent diverticulitis

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE;

EID: 58449084185     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2008.01546.x     Document Type: Article

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