Rectal perforation during colonoscopic retroflexion: a large, prospective experience in an academic center

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 960-963

  Quallick, Matthew R ^a   Brown, William R ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM RETROFLEXION; SELF REPORT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 62949197196     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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