Management of right-sided diverticulitis: A retrospective review from a hospital in Japan

Surgery Today

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 321-325

  Matsushima, Kazuhide ^a  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Management; Right sided diverticulitis; Surgical indication

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ASIAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77953938442     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-4055-5     Document Type: Article

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