Antibiotics alone instead of percutaneous drainage as initial treatment of large diverticular abscess

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 97-103

  Elagili, F ^a   Stocchi, L ^a   Ozuner, G ^a   Kiran, R P ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics alone; Diverticular abscess; Percutaneous drainage; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULAR ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DRAINAGE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLECTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84925489731     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: 1128045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-014-1250-9     Document Type: Article

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