Current recommendations on diagnosis and management of right-sided diverticulitis

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Divino, Celia M ^a   Telem, Dana A ^a   Buch, Kerri E ^a   Nguyen, Scott Q ^a   Chin, Edward H ^a   Weber, Kaare J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349135276     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/359485     Document Type: Article

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