Colonic explosion during endoscopic polypectomy: Avoidable complication or bad luck?

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 943-944

  Josemanders, D F G M ^a   Spillenaar Bilgen, E J ^a   van Sorge, A A ^a   Wahab, P J ^a   de Vries, R A ^a  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; MACROGOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; COLON FLORA; COLON LAVAGE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON SURGERY; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LACERATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADENOMA; AGED; CECAL NEOPLASMS; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LACERATIONS; MALE;

EID: 33748949746     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-925386     Document Type: Article

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