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Diverticular Disease, Colon

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  • Golder, M., Ster, I. C., Babu, P., Sharma, A., Bayat, M., & Farah, A. (2011). Demographic determinants of risk, colon distribution and density scores of diverticular disease. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 17, 1009–1017.

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  • Riddell, R., El-Zamaity, H., & Jain, D. (2014). Motility disorders. In R. Riddell & D. Jain (Eds.), Lewin, Weinstein, and Riddell’s gastrointestinal pathology and its clinical implications (pp. 227–238). Philadelphia: Lippincot Williams & Wilkins/Walter Kluwer.

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Brcic, I. (2017). Diverticular Disease, Colon. In: Carneiro, F., Chaves, P., Ensari, A. (eds) Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40560-5_1454

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