title: Diverticular disease of the colon in Jordan.
abstract: In a case review over a nine-year period, 35 patients were referred to the University Hospital with a variety of abdominal symptoms related to the gastrointestinal tract, were found to have diverticular disease of the colon. In a retrospective evaluation of 274 consecutive barium enemas performed at the same institute in patients aged 20 to 85 years, in a three-year period (1979 to 1981), colonic diverticula were found in 11 patients, giving incidence of 4 per cent; all positive enemas for diverticulosis in this group occurred in patients over the age of 40 years.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004241:Diverticulum, Colon / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies