Image-guided conservative management of right colonic diverticulitis

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 5838-5842

  Park, Sun Jin ^a   Choi, Sung Il ^a   Lee, Suk Hwan ^a   Lee, Kil Yeon ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ascending colon; Cecum; Colonic diverticulitis; Medical therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHLEGMON; RECURRENT DISEASE; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT COLONIC DIVERTICULITIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74049110915     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.5838     Document Type: Article

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