Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report

Our patient is a 58-year-old female who presented to our emergency room with left upper quadrant abdominal pain the day after outpatient screening colonoscopy. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a grade III spleen injury. She was admitted to our intensive care unit, a...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Mohamed, Habis, Saba, Saeed, Rasha, Mahmoud, Ahmed, Kwok, Scott H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6414183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899606
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3843
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author Ahmed, Mohamed
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Saeed, Rasha
Mahmoud, Ahmed
Kwok, Scott H
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description Our patient is a 58-year-old female who presented to our emergency room with left upper quadrant abdominal pain the day after outpatient screening colonoscopy. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a grade III spleen injury. She was admitted to our intensive care unit, and a gradual decline in her hematocrit was noticed. The patient did well and was discharged from hospital the day after splenic artery embolization.
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spelling pubmed-64141832019-03-21 Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report Ahmed, Mohamed Habis, Saba Saeed, Rasha Mahmoud, Ahmed Kwok, Scott H Cureus Radiology Our patient is a 58-year-old female who presented to our emergency room with left upper quadrant abdominal pain the day after outpatient screening colonoscopy. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a grade III spleen injury. She was admitted to our intensive care unit, and a gradual decline in her hematocrit was noticed. The patient did well and was discharged from hospital the day after splenic artery embolization. Cureus 2019-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6414183/ /pubmed/30899606 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3843 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ahmed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title_full Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title_fullStr Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title_short Grade III Spleen Laceration After a Colonoscopy Treated with Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report
title_sort grade iii spleen laceration after a colonoscopy treated with splenic artery embolization: a case report
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6414183/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3843
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