Iatrogenic Severe Splenic Injury after Colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is a low-risk procedure performed for screening and diagnostic purposes. About 15 million colonoscopies were carried out in the United States in 2012 with this number projected to increase. Injury to the spleen as a complication of colonoscopy is still a rather rare occurrence. We report...

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Autores principales: Enofe, Ikponmwosa, Burch, Jacob, Yam, Julie, Rai, Manoj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7563073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8824720
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description Colonoscopy is a low-risk procedure performed for screening and diagnostic purposes. About 15 million colonoscopies were carried out in the United States in 2012 with this number projected to increase. Injury to the spleen as a complication of colonoscopy is still a rather rare occurrence. We report a case of significant splenic injury, American Association of Surgery for Trauma (AAST) grade III with hemoperitoneum, in a patient following diagnostic colonoscopy, managed conservatively without the need for invasive or salvage surgical procedure.
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spelling pubmed-75630732020-10-19 Iatrogenic Severe Splenic Injury after Colonoscopy Enofe, Ikponmwosa Burch, Jacob Yam, Julie Rai, Manoj Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Colonoscopy is a low-risk procedure performed for screening and diagnostic purposes. About 15 million colonoscopies were carried out in the United States in 2012 with this number projected to increase. Injury to the spleen as a complication of colonoscopy is still a rather rare occurrence. We report a case of significant splenic injury, American Association of Surgery for Trauma (AAST) grade III with hemoperitoneum, in a patient following diagnostic colonoscopy, managed conservatively without the need for invasive or salvage surgical procedure. Hindawi 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7563073/ /pubmed/33083066 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8824720 Text en Copyright © 2020 Ikponmwosa Enofe et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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