The water jet deformation sign: A novel provocative colonoscopic maneuver to help diagnose an inverted colonic diverticulum

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-298

  Cappell, Mitchell S ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic diverticulosis; Colonic perforation; Colonoscopy; Inverted colonic diverticulum; Polypectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MORBID OBESITY; ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 63149131535     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318198697f     Document Type: Article

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