Elective Surgery for Sigmoid Diverticulitis - Indications, Techniques, and Results | Zendy

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Elective Surgery for Sigmoid Diverticulitis - Indications, Techniques, and Results

Author(s) -

Christian Jurowich,

Christoph T. Germer

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

visceral medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2297-475X

pISSN - 2297-4725

DOI - 10.1159/000381500

Subject(s) - diverticulitis , medicine , diverticular disease , general surgery , elective surgery , stage (stratigraphy) , surgery , intensive care medicine , paleontology , biology

Diverticulitis is one of the leading indications for elective colonic resections although there is an ongoing controversial discussion about classification, stage-dependent therapeutic options, and therapy settings. As there is a rising trend towards conservative therapy for diverticular disease even in patients with a complicated form of diverticulitis, we provide a compact overview of current surgical therapy principles and the remaining questions to be answered.

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