Older patients with diverticulitis have low recurrence rates and rarely need surgery

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 146-153

  Lidor, Anne O ^a   Segal, Jodi B ^a   Wu, Albert W ^a,b   Yu, Qilu ^a   Feinberg, Richard ^a   Schneider, Eric B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960907482     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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