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Surgical treatment of perforated diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Abstract

A retrospective review of 1353 cases of acute perforated sigmoid diverticulitis treated surgically demonstrates that those operations that resect or exteriorize the perforated segment at the first operation are associated with a lower operative mortality rate than procedures that fail to remove the perforated segment at the initial operation. These results are true for both diffuse peritonitis and localized abscess.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, 10 Nathan D. Perlman Place, 10003, New York, New York

    Jon M. Greif D.O., Gregory Fried M.D. & Charles K. McSherry M.D. (Director of Surgery)

  2. the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, New York, New York

    Jon M. Greif D.O., Gregory Fried M.D. & Charles K. McSherry M.D. (Director of Surgery)

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Read at the meeting of the New York Society for Colon and Rectal Surgery, New York, New York, March 20 1980.

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Greif, J.M., Fried, G. & McSherry, C.K. Surgical treatment of perforated diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon. Dis Colon Rectum 23, 483–487 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987083

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