Title: Spectrum of diverticular disease of the colon in Lebanon AUBMC experience.
Abstract: There is an increasing number of cases of colonic diverticular disease among hospital admissions to AUBMC being more prevalent in patients > 50 years old (76.5%). Colonic diverticular disease were more prevalent in urban population admitted to AUBMC (95.6%). Diverticulitis is the most common complication of colonic diverticular disease among admitted cases with colonic diverticular disease (51%). All patients with diverticulitis who presented without abdominal pain had fever. This finding made diverticulitis part of the differential diagnosis in cases of FUO in patients over 50 years old.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-03-30
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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