Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding was the major indication for emergency endoscopy. Fifteen colonic perforations (0.15%) were identified; 14 from colonoscopy and one from flexible sigmoidoscopy.

While colonoscopies are considered the gold standard of screening, it’s essential to make sure you’re not getting bum results ...

Trauma or injury to the large intestine during medical procedures, such as a colonoscopy, can also cause perforations. A perforated bowel occurs when a hole forms in the inner wall of the large or ...

Colonic perforations, which can occur during medical procedures such as colonoscopy ... used to close defects or perforations in the gastrointestinal tract using specialized tools during an ...

as well as perforation…or poking a hole somewhere in the bowel. However this is extremely rare. It happens in one percent of the patients. The beautiful thing about colonoscopy is that we can ...

An experimental blood test can effectively and accurately detect colon cancer in middle-aged folks and seniors, a new study ...

These drugs are well suited to colonoscopy due to their rapid onset ... and intraoperative finding of a perforated colon. Eight independent patient-, endoscopist-, and endoscopy-related variables ...