Acute diverticulitis: A decade of prospective follow-up

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 415-419

  Lahat, Adi ^a   Avidan, Benjamin ^a   Sakhnini, Emad ^a   Katz, Lior ^a   Fidder, Herma H ^b   Meir, Simon Bar ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute diverticulitis; complications; follow up; sigmoidectomy; treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84876418726     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3182694dbb     Document Type: Article

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