[The complications of diagnostic colonoscopy].
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.
Raschellá
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Istituto di III Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma.
Boccaccini
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F
Scarpitti
A
A
Picchi
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P
Peparini
N
N
Pasta
V
V
D003106:Colon / Q000293:injuries; D003113:Colonoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors
Le complicanze della colonscopia diagnostica.