%0 Journal Article %T WSES Guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting %A Aleksandar Karamarkovic %A Andras Vereczkei %A Andreas Hecker %A Andrew B. Peitzman %A Arda Isik %A Ari Leppaniemi %A Arianna Birindelli %A Boris Sakakushev %A Carlos A. Ordonez %A Carlos Augusto Gomes %A Daniel Rios-Cruz %A Dieter G. Weber %A Elif £żolak %A Ernest E. Moore %A Ewen A. Griffiths %A Fausto Catena %A Federico Coccolini %A Fikri M. Abu-Zidan %A Frederick A. Moore %A Georgios Gkiokas %A Gerson Alves Pereira J¨²nior %A Giovanni Bellanova %A Goran Augustin %A Gustavo P. Fraga %A Ionut Negoi %A Isidoro Di Carlo %A Jan Ulrych %A Jeffry Kashuk %A Kenji Inaba %A Kenneth Y Kok %A Konstantinos Bouliaris %A Luca Ansaloni %A Mahir Gachabayov %A Mario Paulo Faro %A Massimo Sartelli %A Michael McFarlane %A Miklosh Bala %A Miran Rems %A Norio Sato %A Ofir Ben-Ishay %A Osvaldo Chiara %A Rao R. Ivatury %A Raul Coimbra %A Renato Bessa Melo %A Rifat Latifi %A Rodolfo Soto %A Ronald V. Maier %A Salomone Di Saverio %A Sanjay Marwah %A Sanoop K. Zachariah %A Vishal G. Shelat %A Walter Biffl %A Yoram Kluger %A Yunfeng Cui %A Zaza Demetrashvili %J Archive of "World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES". %D 2016 %R 10.1186/s13017-016-0095-0 %X Acute left sided colonic diverticulitis is one of the most common clinical conditions encountered by surgeons in acute setting. A World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) Consensus Conference on acute diverticulitis was held during the 3rd World Congress of the WSES in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 7th, 2015. During this consensus conference the guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting were presented and discussed. This document represents the executive summary of the final guidelines approved by the consensus conference %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4966807/