How to diagnose acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis: Proposal for a clinical scoring system

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 940-946

  Andeweg, Caroline S ^a   Knobben, Leonike ^a   Hendriks, Jan C M ^a   Bleichrodt, Robert P ^a   Van Goor, Harry ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT SIDED COLONIC DIVERTICULITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NOMOGRAM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79954628830     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182113614     Document Type: Article

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