Outpatient Diverticulitis: Mild or Myth?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1389-1396

  O'Connor, Erin S ^a   Smith, Maureen A ^a   Heise, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Diverticulitis; Outpatients

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84862793649     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-012-1861-2     Document Type: Review

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