Splenic injury after colonoscopy: Conservative management using CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 708-710

  Prowda, Joan C ^a   Trevisan, Susan Garrett ^b   Lev Toaff, Anna S ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Doylestown Hospital   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INJURY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SPLEEN DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27744487756     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.3.01850708     Document Type: Article

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