Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient

Table 4

Surgical and medical treatment.

Patients	≤50 years	>50 years	𝑃
Number	23	57
Medical treatment	15 (65.2%)	38 (66.7%)	0.891
Surgery	8 (34.8%)	19 (33.3%)
Anterior resection	3 (13.0%)	6 (10.5%)	0.257
Hartmann operation	5 (21.7%)	9 (15.8%)	0.107
Bridge colostomy	—	4 (7.0%)	0.319