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Review
. 2016 Jul 29:11:37.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-016-0095-0. eCollection 2016.

WSES Guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

Massimo Sartelli  1 , Fausto Catena  2 , Luca Ansaloni  3 , Federico Coccolini  4 , Ewen A Griffiths  5 , Fikri M Abu-Zidan  6 , Salomone Di Saverio  7 , Jan Ulrych  8 , Yoram Kluger  9 , Ofir Ben-Ishay  9 , Frederick A Moore  10 , Rao R Ivatury  11 , Raul Coimbra  12 , Andrew B Peitzman  13 , Ari Leppaniemi  14 , Gustavo P Fraga  15 , Ronald V Maier  16 , Osvaldo Chiara  17 , Jeffry Kashuk  18 , Boris Sakakushev  19 , Dieter G Weber  20 , Rifat Latifi  21 , Walter Biffl  22 , Miklosh Bala  23 , Aleksandar Karamarkovic  24 , Kenji Inaba  25 , Carlos A Ordonez  26 , Andreas Hecker  27 , Goran Augustin  28 , Zaza Demetrashvili  29 , Renato Bessa Melo  30 , Sanjay Marwah  31 , Sanoop K Zachariah  32 , Vishal G Shelat  33 , Michael McFarlane  34 , Miran Rems  35 , Carlos Augusto Gomes  36 , Mario Paulo Faro  37 , Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior  38 , Ionut Negoi  39 , Yunfeng Cui  40 , Norio Sato  41 , Andras Vereczkei  42 , Giovanni Bellanova  43 , Arianna Birindelli  7 , Isidoro Di Carlo  44 , Kenneth Y Kok  45 , Mahir Gachabayov  46 , Georgios Gkiokas  47 , Konstantinos Bouliaris  48 , Elif Çolak  49 , Arda Isik  50 , Daniel Rios-Cruz  51 , Rodolfo Soto  52 , Ernest E Moore  22
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Review

WSES Guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

Massimo Sartelli et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

Acute left sided colonic diverticulitis is one of the most common clinical conditions encountered by surgeons in acute setting. A World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) Consensus Conference on acute diverticulitis was held during the 3rd World Congress of the WSES in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 7th, 2015. During this consensus conference the guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting were presented and discussed. This document represents the executive summary of the final guidelines approved by the consensus conference.

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