Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration

Splenic injury is an uncommon complication following a colonoscopy procedure. Splenic laceration typically presents with post-procedural abdominal pain. We present a case of non-specific shoulder pain, following an uneventful routine colonoscopy and highlight the importance of maintaining a high deg...

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Autores principales: Dziadkowiec, Karolina N, Stawinski, Peter M, Radadiya, Dhruvil, Katz, Aviv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32455072
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7755
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author Dziadkowiec, Karolina N
Stawinski, Peter M
Radadiya, Dhruvil
Katz, Aviv
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description Splenic injury is an uncommon complication following a colonoscopy procedure. Splenic laceration typically presents with post-procedural abdominal pain. We present a case of non-specific shoulder pain, following an uneventful routine colonoscopy and highlight the importance of maintaining a high degree of clinical suspicion for the general gastroenterologist.
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spelling pubmed-72430602020-05-22 Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration Dziadkowiec, Karolina N Stawinski, Peter M Radadiya, Dhruvil Katz, Aviv Cureus Gastroenterology Splenic injury is an uncommon complication following a colonoscopy procedure. Splenic laceration typically presents with post-procedural abdominal pain. We present a case of non-specific shoulder pain, following an uneventful routine colonoscopy and highlight the importance of maintaining a high degree of clinical suspicion for the general gastroenterologist. Cureus 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7243060/ /pubmed/32455072 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7755 Text en Copyright © 2020, Dziadkowiec 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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Dziadkowiec, Karolina N
Stawinski, Peter M
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Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title_full Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title_fullStr Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title_full_unstemmed Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title_short Left Shoulder Pain After Routine Colonoscopy: An Unusual Presentation of Splenic Laceration
title_sort left shoulder pain after routine colonoscopy: an unusual presentation of splenic laceration
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32455072
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7755
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