Editing Diverticular disease (section)

== '''Differential diagnosis''' ==

* Segmental colitis associated     with diverticulitis
** Stasis/ischaemia in the same      region of bowel as diverticula
** Seems to pretty much the      same as diverticulitis clinically, but will look different on colonoscopy      (sparing of orifices, as opposed to either complete resolution of      inflammation or orifices being the focus of infection)
* Rectal diverticula - rarely     symptomatic
* Giant Colonic Diverticula
** >4cm diameter
** Arises from antimesenteric      border of sigmoid colon in >90% of cases
** Best treatment would be      partial colectomy with primary anastomosis - diverticulectomy carries a      high risk of blow-out