[Treatment iatrogenic injury of rectum and colon]

Klin Khir. 2000 Sep:(9):24-6.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The results of treatment of 72 patients with iatrogenic injury of colon during performance of urological and gynaecological operations and endoscopic procedures, colonic investigations as well, were summarized. In 19 patients the injury was not revealed intraoperatively, causing the postoperative fecal peritonitis occurrence in 7 of them, abscess of small pelvis and the fecal fistula formation--in 12.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Colon / injuries*
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease*
  • Intraoperative Complications*
  • Rectum / injuries*