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Systematic review of failure of nonoperative management in complicated sigmoid diverticulitis with abscess.

H LeeM GachabayovA RojasD M FelsenreichP TsarkovRoberto Bergamaschi
Published in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2020)
The rate of failure of nonoperative management was 44.4%. The rate of relapse at 30 days following nonoperative management was at 18.9%. Distant abscesses were associated with significantly increased rates of relapse compared with pericolic abscesses. The rate of recurrence following nonoperative management was 25.5% at the mean follow-up of 38 months.
Keyphrases
  • systematic review
  • lymph node