Difference between revisions of "Diverticular disease"

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 Complications:
 *Diverticulitis.
-*Diverticular-associated colitis<ref name=pmid19581849>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mulhall | first1 = AM. | last2 = Mahid | first2 = SS. | last3 = Petras | first3 = RE. | last4 = Galandiuk | first4 = S. | title = Diverticular disease associated with inflammatory bowel disease-like colitis: a systematic review. | journal = Dis Colon Rectum | volume = 52 | issue = 6 | pages = 1072-9 | month = Jun | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819ef79a | PMID = 19581849 }}</ref> - rare.
+*Peformation - [[peritonitis]].
-**Rectal biopsy to differentiate from [[ulcerative colitis]].
+*Diverticular-associated colitis - see below.
+===Diverticular-associated colitis===
+Features:<ref name=pmid19581849>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mulhall | first1 = AM. | last2 = Mahid | first2 = SS. | last3 = Petras | first3 = RE. | last4 = Galandiuk | first4 = S. | title = Diverticular disease associated with inflammatory bowel disease-like colitis: a systematic review. | journal = Dis Colon Rectum | volume = 52 | issue = 6 | pages = 1072-9 | month = Jun | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819ef79a | PMID = 19581849 }}</ref>
+*Rare.
+*Definitions vary somewhat - one is: ''IBD-like inflammation restricted to areas with diverticular disease''.
+*Considerable overlap with IBD histologically (no definite histologic findings).
+*Rectal biopsy may be used to differentiate from [[ulcerative colitis]].
 ==Gross==