Imaging update: acute colonic diverticulitis.

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Published in Clin Colon Rectal Surg on August 01, 2009

Authors

Kristen K Destigter1, David P Keating

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont.

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