Clinical-scientific note: Splenic rupture after colonoscopy [1]

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 652-653

  Jaboury, I ^a  

^a Albany Regional Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; THORAX PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9744270704     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00686.x     Document Type: Letter

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