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Post-Diverticulitis Colonoscopy Was Not Associated with Higher Colonic Adenoma and Carcinoma: A Multicenter Case–Control Study

Medicina, 2021
Background and Objectives: Colonoscopy following an episode of acute diverticulitis is currently recommended to rule out underlying colon cancer. However, a number of studies have debated this recommendation.
Amir Mari, Tawfik Khoury, Wisam Sbeit
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A rare triad of appendiceal diverticula, appendiceal carcinoid, and colonic diverticula

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2022
Appendiceal diverticulosis is a rare finding associated with appendiceal neoplasms. Both can masquerade as appendicitis in patients and are overlooked in differentials of right upper quadrant pain.
Sunyoung Kim, Shreya Makkapati, Venkat Modukuru, Marc Wallack   +3 more
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Alcohol and smoking affect risk of uncomplicated colonic diverticulosis in Japan.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Colonic diverticula are located predominantly on the right side in Asia and on the left side in Europe and the United States. Factors associated with uncomplicated colonic diverticulosis and its distribution pattern have been unknown.
Naoyoshi Nagata, Ryota Niikura, Takuro Shimbo, Yoshihiro Kishida, Katsunori Sekine, Shohei Tanaka, Tomonori Aoki, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Junichi Akiyama, Mikio Yanase, Toshiyuki Itoh, Masashi Mizokami, Naomi Uemura   +12 more
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The relationship between colonic diverticulosis and abdominal visceral and subcutaneous fat accumulation measured by abdominal CT scan

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2014
Background/Aims: Besides age, risk factors for colonic diverticular disease include dietary meat intake and Western lifestyles, which are also risk factors for obesity.
Sang Pyo Lee, Yong Woo Ahn, Oh Young Lee, Kang Nyeong Lee   +3 more
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Colonic diverticulosis - diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2022
Objectives. The objectives of this study are to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in patients with complicated acute colonic diverticulosis. Methods.
Cristian Meșină, Theodor Viorel Dumitrescu, Mihai Calin Ciorbagiu, Cosmin Vasile Obleaga, Ionica-Daniel Vilcea, Mihaela-Iustina Mesina-Botoran   +5 more
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Relationship between diverticulosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in elderly patients

Journal of International Medical Research, 2018
Objective To compare clinical and laboratory features of elderly patients with and without diverticulosis and assess factors related to hepatosteatosis.
Abdurrahman Sahin, Nurettin Tunc, Ulvi Demirel, Orhan Kursat Poyrazoglu, Mehmet Yalniz, Ibrahim Halil Bahcecioglu   +5 more
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Congenital Diverticular Disease of the Entire Colon

Case Reports in Surgery, 2013
Congenital or true colonic diverticulosis is a rare condition typified by the preservation of the colonic wall architecture within the diverticular outpouching.
A. Patel, H. M. N. Joshi, C. Kaur, J. M. Wilson   +3 more
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The Clinical Relevance of the Rectosigmoid Brake in Surgical Disorders and Therapies: A Systematic Review of Colonic Manometry Studies. [PDF]

Neurogastroenterol Motil
Colonic motility mapping reveals a meal‐induced rectosigmoid brake in healthy individuals that is disrupted, disorganized, or exaggerated following surgery and in motility disorders. These alterations underlie conditions such as ileus, pseudo‐obstruction, and fecal incontinence, and may be modulated by sacral neuromodulation.
Penfold JA, Wells CI, Bissett IP, O'Grady G.   +3 more
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Change in bowel habit, abdominal pain, and a palpable abdominal mass in a 58‐year‐old female

Clinical Case Reports, 2017
Key Clinical Message Giant colonic diverticulum is a rare complication of diverticulosis, which may present in the acute or chronic setting. Colonic resection and en bloc resection of the diverticulum are the favored management, however, conservative ...
Julian Peacock, Zane Perkins
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Appendiceal diverticulosis in a patient with family history of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome––a case report

Radiology Case Reports, 2020
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHD) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder that predisposes patients to cutaneous tumors, pulmonary cysts with recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces, and a variety of renal neoplasms including hybrid oncocytic and chromophobe ...
Alan Alexander, Kyle Hunter, Stephen Passerini, Roopa Bhat, Ambarish P. Bhat   +4 more
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