Cyclical increase in diverticulitis during the summer months

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-323

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Read, Thomas E ^a   Marcello, Peter W ^a   Hall, Jason F ^a   Schoetz, David J ^a   Foley, Eugene F ^b  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUMMER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952850904     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.27     Document Type: Article

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