Department of Gastroenterology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
1Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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Financial support: This study was supported by a grant of the Korean Health Technology R&D project, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (A120176).
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Values are presented as mean±SD or n (%).
*Group 1: Patients who underwent colonoscopy within 1 year after diagnosis of diverticulitis.
†Group 2: Patients who did not undergo colonoscopy within 1 year (did not undergo colonoscopy or underwent colonoscopy after >1 year from the diagnosis of diverticulitis).
‡Multiple choices.
Baseline Characteristics
Values are presented as mean±SD or n (%).
*Multiple choices.
Comparison between the Early Colonoscopy Group (Group 1) and Late or No-Colonoscopy Group (Group 2)
Values are presented as mean±SD or n (%).
*Group 1: Patients who underwent colonoscopy within 1 year after diagnosis of diverticulitis.
†Group 2: Patients who did not undergo colonoscopy within 1 year (did not undergo colonoscopy or underwent colonoscopy after >1 year from the diagnosis of diverticulitis).
‡Multiple choices.
Colonoscopic Findings after Acute Diverticulitis (n=61)
Values are presented as n (%).
*Suspected appendiceal mucocele, nonspecific ileal ulcer, lipoma.
CRC, colorectal cancer.
Values are presented as mean±SD or n (%). *Multiple choices.
Values are presented as mean±SD or n (%). *Group 1: Patients who underwent colonoscopy within 1 year after diagnosis of diverticulitis. †Group 2: Patients who did not undergo colonoscopy within 1 year (did not undergo colonoscopy or underwent colonoscopy after >1 year from the diagnosis of diverticulitis). ‡Multiple choices.
Values are presented as n (%). *Suspected appendiceal mucocele, nonspecific ileal ulcer, lipoma. CRC, colorectal cancer.