Complications of colonoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-445

  Dominitz, Jason A ^a   Eisen, Glenn M ^a   Baron, Todd H ^a   Goldstein, Jay L ^a   Hirota, William K ^a   Jacobson, Brian C ^a   Johanson, John F ^a   Leighton, Jonathan A ^a   Mallery, J Shawn ^a   Raddawi, Hareth M ^a   Vargo II, John J ^a   Waring, J Patrick ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a   Wheeler Harbough, Jo ^a   Faigel, Douglas O ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; BACTEREMIA; BARIUM ENEMA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLON PERFORATION; COLONOSCOPY; DEATH; ELECTROCOAGULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDLINE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REST; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA;

EID: 0037384818     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)80005-6     Document Type: Review

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