There is still controversy regarding the appropriate management of diverticulitis of the colon in cases when both surgical and conservative treatment may be an option. We performed a systematic ...

Diverticulosis and diverticulitis are diseases of the elderly. Nevertheless, conflicting data have been reported in the last two decades regarding the incidence and natural history of ...

But when the problem is caused by diverticulitis, the pain can differ from other aches you’ve had before. Causes ...

Diverticulitis is an infectious inflammatory condition that occurs in a diverticula, a thinned-out portion of the colon. The condition is a form of colitis , an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD ...

Left-sided colonic diverticulitis occurs in 209 out of 100,000 people years based upon a Western population, and a perforation occurs in just under 10% of those cases. The death rate is low but still ...

According to a recent study researchers say estrogen may provide protection against colon cancer. For the study researchers fed five different diets to female mice and followed their progress for ...

Farrugia, F. A. Martikos, G. Surgeon, C. Tzanetis, P. Misiakos, E. Zavras, N. and Charalampopoulos, A. 2017. Radiology of the adrenal incidentalomas. Review of the ...

When we write a sentence we always use a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end (usually a full stop). For example: This is an example of how to use capital letters and full stops ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

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