Recurrent rectal diverticulitis

Lundy, J.B.; Edwards, K.D.; Parker, D.M.; Rivera, D.E.

American Surgeon 72(7): 633-636

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1348
PMID: 16875087
Document Number: 602226
Diverticular involvement of the colon is very common in the United States. Patients present with asymptomatic diverticuli and may have complications of these, spanning the spectrum of uncomplicated diverticulitis to an acute surgical abdominal as a result of feculent peritonitis. We discuss a patient requiring low anterior resection for intractable symptoms resulting from recurrent rectal diverticulitis as well as a review of the limited literature on the subject of diverticular disease of the rectum.

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