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Do We Need to Operate on Patients After Successful Percutaneous Drainage of a Diverticular Abscess?

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Sigmoid diverticular disease is a significant health problem, resulting in annual estimated costs of over 2.6 billion dollars and 312,000 hospital admissions in the USA [1, 2]. Most cases of diverticular abscess are managed non-operatively with intravenous antibiotics, and the addition of percutaneous drainage (PD) in selective cases [3–5].

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Gaertner, W.B., Madoff, R.D. (2017). Do We Need to Operate on Patients After Successful Percutaneous Drainage of a Diverticular Abscess?. In: Hyman, N., Umanskiy, K. (eds) Difficult Decisions in Colorectal Surgery. Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40223-9_26

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