Practice parameters for the treatment of sigmoid diverticulitis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 284-294

  Feingold, Daniel ^a   Steele, Scott R ^a   Lee, Sang ^a   Kaiser, Andreas ^a   Boushey, Robin ^a   Buie, W Donald ^a   Rafferty, Janice Frederick ^a  

^a American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MESALAZINE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIFAXIMIN; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIET THERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SIGMOID DIVERTICULITIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COLON DISEASE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING;

COLORECTAL SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 84897576896     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000075     Document Type: Article

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