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  • Title: Surgical treatment of perforated diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon.
    Author: Greif JM, Fried G, McSherry CK.
    Journal: Dis Colon Rectum; 1980 Oct; 23(7):483-7. PubMed ID: 7002505.
    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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