Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy

Splenic injury is usually seen with penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma. It is also one of the rare complications of colonoscopy. Various patient and procedural factors have been reported to increase the risk of this dreaded complication. We present a case of splenic injury after outpatient colono...

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Autores principales: Faryad, Shujaa, Ali, Mirza S, Hussain, Habiba, Chittivelu, Subramanyam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9157610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35663644
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24660
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author Faryad, Shujaa
Ali, Mirza S
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description Splenic injury is usually seen with penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma. It is also one of the rare complications of colonoscopy. Various patient and procedural factors have been reported to increase the risk of this dreaded complication. We present a case of splenic injury after outpatient colonoscopy where intra-abdominal adhesions from previous abdominal surgeries were presumed to be the cause of splenic injury. Our patient had improved outcomes with timely diagnosis and intervention.
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spelling pubmed-91576102022-06-04 Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy Faryad, Shujaa Ali, Mirza S Hussain, Habiba Chittivelu, Subramanyam Cureus Internal Medicine Splenic injury is usually seen with penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma. It is also one of the rare complications of colonoscopy. Various patient and procedural factors have been reported to increase the risk of this dreaded complication. We present a case of splenic injury after outpatient colonoscopy where intra-abdominal adhesions from previous abdominal surgeries were presumed to be the cause of splenic injury. Our patient had improved outcomes with timely diagnosis and intervention. Cureus 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9157610/ /pubmed/35663644 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24660 Text en Copyright © 2022, Faryad et al. https://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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Faryad, Shujaa
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Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
title Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
title_full Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
title_fullStr Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
title_full_unstemmed Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
title_short Splenic Laceration: A Rare Complication of Colonoscopy
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topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9157610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35663644
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24660
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