Surgical treatment of sigmoid diverticulitis - Analysis of predictive risk factors for postoperative infections, surgical complications, and mortality

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 577-584

  Antolovic, D ^a   Reissfelder, C ^a   Koch, M ^a   Mertens, B ^a   Schmidt, J ^a   Buchler M W ^a   Weitz, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonic diverticulitis; Mortality; Risk factors; Surgical infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOID DIVERTICULITIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 63649164069     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-009-0667-5     Document Type: Article

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