SOLITARY DIVERTICULITIS OF THE CECUM
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Solitary caecal diverticulitis
Solitary caecal diverticulitis Editor, I have had recent experience of three cases of solitary caecal diverticulitis which presented over an 18 month period to Causeway Hospital 1 and wished to add to the case by Abogunrin et al. 2 There have been over 1000 cases of caecal diverticulitis reported in the literature. A review of 881 cases showed that the average age was 43.6 years (range 7 to 87 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1945
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-194507000-00015