What is it about?
splenic injury from colonoscopy is presumed to be be a rare complication but it it is in fact less rare than mny doctors believe .we identified 160 reports with 218 case since 1974 . further more the real number could be much higher up to 1/6000 cases of colonoscopy according to previous report
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Why is it important?
splenic injury is a serious may be avoidable complication after colonoscopy .many gastro enterolosist and are not familiar with such a complication so they can prevent it and warn the patient about it ,also many emergency doctors are not aware of such a complication when they are faced with nd so they are
Perspectives
it is important to raise awareness of important possible complication by the endoscopist so they take precausions , the patients should know of this rare complication and not srprised and the emergency doctors when facing symptoms following colonoscopy remeber this possiblity . all that can save live
Dr imad Afram Jaboury
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This page is a summary of: Re: Colonoscopic blunt splenic injury: a rare but an important complication, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, July 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ans.14674.
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