CONTEMPORARY DIAGNOSIS AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COLONIC DIVERTICULITIS COMPLICATIONS

Abstract

Сomplications of acute colonic diverticulitis occur more frequently nowadays in emergency surgical departments. Despite the high incidence of colonic diverticulitis, especially in elderly population, there are still many unsolved questions of its diagnosis and surgical treatment. The aim of our study is to review various means of laboratory and instrumental examination, and also various types of surgical treatment, used worldwide.

Keywords

• acute complicated colonic diverticulitis
• ultrasound study
• computed tomography
• percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscess
• hartmann’s procedure
• resection of sigmoid colon with application of primary anastomosis
• laparoscopic lavage