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- Title
SPLENIC RUPTURE DURING COLONOSCOPY: COMPLICATION OR MEDICAL ERROR? CASE REPORT AND MEDICO LEGAL IMPLICATIONS.
- Authors
Treglia, Michele; Pallocci, Margherita; De Luca, Lucilla; Passalacqua, Pierluigi; Mazzuca, Daniela; Marsella, Luigi Tonino; Mauriello, Silvestro
- Abstract
Iatrogenic splenic injury during colonoscopy is a rare but known occurrence. Such a rare event raises many issues relating to medical professional liability, since it is not always easy to establish whether the onset of the splenic injury is related to a technical error on part of the operator or simply to a complication. We report the case of a 52-year-old woman who, after undergoing a diagnostic therapeutic endoscopic procedure, suffered an acute spleen rupture, without documented bowel perforation, requiring emergency splenectomy. In the case herein reported, a further medicolegal issue is related to the failure of predicting such a complication, given its rare occurrence in the informed consent form signed by the patient.
- Subjects
SPLENIC rupture; MEDICAL errors; COLONOSCOPY; INTESTINAL perforation; IATROGENIC diseases
- Publication
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2021, Vol 16, p145
- ISSN
2279-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3269/1970-5492.2021.16.33