COLON PERFORATION, BILATERAL PNEUMOTHORACES, PNEUMOPERICARDIUM, PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM, AND SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA COMPLICATING ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY - ANATOMIC AND MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS

Authors
HO HC BURCHELL S MORRIS P YU M
Citation
Hc. Ho et al., COLON PERFORATION, BILATERAL PNEUMOTHORACES, PNEUMOPERICARDIUM, PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM, AND SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA COMPLICATING ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY - ANATOMIC AND MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS, The American surgeon, 62(9), 1996, pp. 770-774
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
The American surgeon → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031348
Volume
62
Issue
9
Year of publication
1996
Pages
770 - 774
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-1348(1996)62:9<770:CPBPPP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A case of colonoscopic polypectomy complicated by perforation, pneumop eritoneum, bilateral pneumothoraces, pneumopericardium, pneumomediasti num, and subcutaneous emphysema is presented. The anatomic basis for t he various clinical presentations of extraluminal air following colono scopy as well as the option of conservative therapy of select cases of perforation is discussed.