title: Diverticular disease of the colon and megacolon. Incidence in a psychiatric centre compared with a teaching hospital.
abstract: A five-year survey of hospital admissions at a modern mental hospital reveals a rarity in the incidence of diverticular disease of the colon and its complications and a greatly increased frequency of idiopathic megacolon and its complications compared with patients admitted to a general hospital.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D004241:Diverticulum, Colon / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008531:Megacolon / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged