Complication after pre-operative India ink tattooing in a colonic lesion

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 303-

  Singh, Sarvpreet ^a,d   Arif, A ^b   Fox, C ^c   Basnyat, P ^c  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Ingleby House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEEDLE; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; SURGICAL WARD; TATTOOING;

CARBON; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; TATTOOING;

EID: 33847025682     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096245     Document Type: Article

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