Long-term follow-up after an initial episode of diverticulitis: What are the predictors of recurrence?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-288

  Hall, Jason F ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Ricciardi, Rocco ^a   Read, Thomas ^a   Scheirey, Christopher ^a   Wald, Christoph ^a   Marcello, Peter W ^a   Schoetz, David J ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diverticulitis; Diverticulosis; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON FISTULA; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DESCENDING COLON; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTESTINE RESECTION; IRRITABLE COLON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PELVIS ABSCESS; PEPTIC ULCER; PERICOLIC ABSCESS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMOKING; STOMACH BYPASS; TRANSVERSE COLON;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952766635     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3182028576     Document Type: Article

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