Diverticular disease: Reconsidering conventional wisdom

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1532-1537

  Peery, Anne F ^a   Sandler, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic Diverticula; Diverticular Disease; IBS

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLOSTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEVER; FIBER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NUT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK FACTOR; TENESMUS;

COLONIC DIVERTICULA; DIVERTICULAR DISEASE; IBS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLECTOMY; DIET; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; HUMANS;

EID: 84887995951     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.04.048     Document Type: Article

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