The complications of diagnostic colonoscopy
Raschellá, G.F.; Boccaccini, F.; Scarpitti, A.; Picchi, P.; Peparini, N.; Pasta, V.
Il Giornale di Chirurgia 13(11-12): 573-575
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-9005 PMID: 1292569 Document Number: 394900
Major complications of diagnostic colonoscopy based on a series of 17.583 procedures performed from 1980 throughout 1991 are reported. No higher risk of colon perforation was registered either performing total or partial colonoscopy, for the site of perforation was in most cases the sigmoid colon.
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