The surgeon's view

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-134

  Senapati, Asha ^a  

^a QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute diverticulitis; Complications; Conservative treatment; Elective surgery; Recurrent diverticulitis

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; MESALAZINE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON FISTULA; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 84861043250     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: 14219875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335920     Document Type: Article

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