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SURGICAL TREATMENT OF DUODENAL DIVERTICULA ASSOCIATED WITH SYMPTOMATIC BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH
Author(s) -
Breen Kerry J.,
Connell John L.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb07017.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malabsorption , bacterial overgrowth , gastroenterology , small intestinal bacterial overgrowth , surgery , duodenal diseases , duodenum , irritable bowel syndrome
A case is reported of a patient with symptomatic bacterial overgrowth and Vitamin B 12 malabsorption secondary to two duodenal diverticula, treated successfully by surgical excision of the diverticula.