Rectal perforations after barium enema: A review

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-271

  De Feiter, Peter W ^a   Soeters, Peter B ^a   Dejong, Cornelis H C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barium enema; Complications; Peritonitis; Rectal perforation; Review

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANUS INJURY; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SURGERY; BARIUM ENEMA; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXTRAVASATION; FLUID THERAPY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ILEOSTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONITIS; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM SURGERY; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RETROPERITONEUM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VISCERA;

BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENEMA; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM;

EID: 32344451257     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0225-3     Document Type: Review

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