AN AETIOLOGICAL STUDY OF DIVERTICULOSIS OF THE RIGHT COLON

Norihisa Murayama, Shozo Baba, Susumu Kodaira, Osahiko Abe

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery · 1981 · 15 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Right‐sided diverticular disease is commoner in Japan than elsewhere. Measurements ot the thickness of the right colon muscle in such cases, together with counts of the number of haustra in the right colon, suggest that the aetiology of right‐sided diverticular disease is the same as that of left‐sided diverticular disease, namely, abnormal thickening of the muscle in the wall of the colon.

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