Iatrogenic Severe Splenic Injury after Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy is a low-risk procedure performed for screening and diagnostic purposes. About 15 million colonoscopies were carried out in the United States in 2012 with this number projected to increase. Injury to the spleen as a complication of colonoscopy is still a rather rare occurrence. We report...
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Main Authors: | Ikponmwosa Enofe, Jacob Burch, Julie Yam, Manoj Rai |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8824720 |
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