Surgical treatment of perforated diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 23 (7) , 483-487
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02987083
Abstract
A retrospective review of 1353 [human] cases of acute perforated sigmoid diverticulitis treated surgically demonstrates operations that resect or exteriorize the perforated segment at the 1st operation are apparently associated with a lower operative mortality rate than procecures that fail to remove the perforated segment at the initial operation. These results are true for diffuse peritonitis and localized abscess.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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