Does a colonoscopy after acute diverticulitis affect its management?: A single center experience

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 317-320

  Schmilovitz Weiss, Hemda ^a   Yalunin, Evgen ^a   Boaz, Mona ^a,b,c   Sehayek Shabbat, Vered ^a   Levin, Izhak ^a   Chervinski, Alexandra ^a   Atar, Eli ^a,c   Niv, Yaron ^a   Shirin, Haim ^a  

^a HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

acute diverticulitis; colon polyps; CT imaging

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858862303     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31823a43a1     Document Type: Article

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