Diverticular disease: Guidelines of the German society for gastroenterology, digestive and metabolic diseases and the German society for general and visceral surgery

Digestion

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 190-207

  Kruis, Wolfgang ^a   Germer, Christoph Thomas ^b   Leifeld, Ludger ^c  

^a Evangelisches Krankenhaus Köln Bonn und Mannheim   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c ST BERNWARD KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Classificatory diagnosis; Diverticular disease; Guidelines; Imaging procedures; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIETARY FIBER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELAPSE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GERMANY; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MALE; STANDARDS; URINARY BLADDER FISTULA; VAGINAL FISTULA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MALE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; URINARY BLADDER FISTULA; VAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 84911468158     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: 14219867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000367625     Document Type: Article

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