Fatal colonic explosion during colonoscopic polypectomy

Gastroenterology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1979, Pages 1307-1310

  Bigard, Marc Andre ^a   Gaucher, Pierre ^a   Lassalle, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

CASE REPORT; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; EXPLOSION; FATALITY; LARGE INTESTINE; THERAPY;

AGED; CASE REPORT; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EXPLOSIONS; GASES; HUMAN; INTESTINAL POLYPS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MANNITOL;

EID: 0018575205     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(79)90172-0     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Gastrointestinal gas: facts and fallacies
2. Explosions during lower bowel electrosurgery
3. L'explosion des gas intestinaux au cours de l'électro-coagulation intra-rectale. Un cas de rupture sigmoïdienne mortelle
4. Die Darmgasexplosion als seltene Ursache einer traumatischen Dickdarmperforation
5. The prevention of gas explosions in the large bowel during electrosurgery
6. Explosion of hydrogen gas in the colon during proctosigmoidoscopy
7. Explosion in the colon during electrodesiccation of polyps
8. Inflammable physiologic gases in the rectum and colon
9. Les accidents de la coloscopie et de la polypectomie coloscopique
10. Complications of flexible fiberoptic colonoscopy and polypectomy
11. Factors affecting the concentration of combustible gases in the colon during colonoscopy
12. The explosive potential of colonic gas during colonoscopic electrosurgical polypectomy
13. Gas Chromatographic analyses of intestinal gas to clarify the question of inert gas insufflation in electrosurgical endoscopy
14. Prevention of colonic gas explosions
15. Explosions of colonic gas
16. The safety of carbon dioxide insufflation during colonoscopic electrosurgical polypectomy
17. Colonic polyps and polypectomy