New Paradigms in the Management of Diverticular Disease

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 680-735

  Hall, Jason ^a   Hammerich, Kai ^b   Roberts, Patricia ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CAFFEINE; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MESALAZINE; MONOBACTAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIFAXIMIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOCUTENOUS FISTULA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLOVAGINAL FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOCOLIC FISTULA; CYSTOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULAR ABSCESS; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FIBER; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERFORATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 77955250742     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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