Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems in Diverticulitis

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Abstract
DIVERTICULOSIS and diverticulitis are relatively common in persons past the age of forty-five. Ochsner and Bargen1 discovered that in all the patients registered at the Mayo Clinic in 1933, x-ray study showed diverticulosis in 0.4 per cent, and 7 per cent of all autopsies revealed the presence of diverticula. This corresponds with Morton's2 figure of 6.5 per cent in 8500 autopsies at the University of Rochester. Among 24,620 cases in which barium enemas were performed Rankin and Brown3 found diverticulosis in 5.6 per cent.Diverticulitis occurs at some time in 17 to 27 per cent of all cases of diverticulosis. . . .