Controversies in the diagnosis and management of diverticulitis coli

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-234

  Beilman, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HARTMANN POUCH; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC LAVAGE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052757137     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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