What is the Difference Between Right- and Left-Sided Colonic Diverticulitis?

What it found

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and medical management of acute colonic diverticulitis developed by the Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases (KASID).Intestinal research · 2026
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2. The Epidemiology of Diverticulitis.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025
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3. Comparison of surgical management and outcomes of acute right colic and sigmoid diverticulitis: a French national retrospective cohort study.Techniques in coloproctology · 2024
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4. Right-sided acute diverticulitis in the West: experience at a university hospital in Argentina.Annals of coloproctology · 2023
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5. Right-sided diverticulitis in a Western population.International journal of colorectal disease · 2022
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Abstract

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