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 ...

Diverticulitis is a condition of the colon that occurs when small bulges or sacs called diverticula that form in the wall of the large intestine become inflamed. Physicians divide the colon into ...

Patients with diverticulosis often are instructed to ... This advice is based on a rather intuitive notion that colonic luminal trauma from these foods might initiate inflammation or bleeding ...

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