Post-colonoscopy massive air leakage with full body involvement: An impressive complication with uneventful recovery

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1330-1332

  Bouma, Gerd ^a   Van Bodegraven, Adriaan A ^a   Van Waesberghe, Jan Hein ^a   Mulder, Chris J ^a   Pieters Van Den Bos, Indra C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SWELLING; VOICE CHANGE; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; ILEOSTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66949128693     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.92     Document Type: Letter

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