Small bowel obstruction complicating colonoscopy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: This report describes a rare complication of colonoscopy and reviews the literature with regard to other rare causes of acute abdominal presentations following colonoscopy. CASE PRESENTATION: After a therapeutic colonoscopy a 60-year-old woman developed an acute abdomen. At laparotomy...

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Autores principales: Hunter, Iain A, Sarkar, Rupa, Smith, Andrew M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18505563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-179
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description INTRODUCTION: This report describes a rare complication of colonoscopy and reviews the literature with regard to other rare causes of acute abdominal presentations following colonoscopy. CASE PRESENTATION: After a therapeutic colonoscopy a 60-year-old woman developed an acute abdomen. At laparotomy she was discovered to have small bowel obstruction secondary to incarceration through a congenital band adhesion. CONCLUSION: Although there is no practical way in which such rare complications can be predicted, this case report emphasises the wide array of pathologies that can result in acute abdominal symptoms following colonoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-24233732008-06-10 Small bowel obstruction complicating colonoscopy: a case report Hunter, Iain A Sarkar, Rupa Smith, Andrew M J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: This report describes a rare complication of colonoscopy and reviews the literature with regard to other rare causes of acute abdominal presentations following colonoscopy. CASE PRESENTATION: After a therapeutic colonoscopy a 60-year-old woman developed an acute abdomen. At laparotomy she was discovered to have small bowel obstruction secondary to incarceration through a congenital band adhesion. CONCLUSION: Although there is no practical way in which such rare complications can be predicted, this case report emphasises the wide array of pathologies that can result in acute abdominal symptoms following colonoscopy. BioMed Central 2008-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2423373/ /pubmed/18505563 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-179 Text en Copyright © 2008 Hunter et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Small bowel obstruction complicating colonoscopy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423373/
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