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16.09.2019 | Surgical Debates
Do All Patients Require Resection After Successful Drainage of Diverticular Abscesses?
verfasst von:
Christopher T. Aquina, Fergal J. Fleming, Jason Hall, Neil Hyman
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
The surgical approach to sigmoid diverticulitis has undergone major changes over the past two decades. Many of the beliefs about the natural history of both complicated and uncomplicated diverticulitis have been reassessed. Acute diverticulitis is complicated by abscess formation in approximately 15–40% of patients. Small abscesses may be treated with antibiotics alone and larger collections generally require concomitant drainage. Percutaneous drainage of diverticular abscesses is a well-established modality, commonly converting a multistage approach requiring an intestinal stoma to a single-stage resection with anastomosis. …