Impact of age on recurrence and severity of left colonic diverticulitis

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Lopez Borao, J ^a   Kreisler, E ^a   Millan, M ^a   Trenti, L ^a   Jaurrieta, E ^a   Rodriguez Moranta, F ^a   Miguel, B ^b   Biondo, S ^a  

^a Bellvitge University Hospital   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonic diverticulitis; Emergency surgery; Recurrence; Younger patients

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; COLON; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84862133374     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.02976.x     Document Type: Article

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