Peroperative colonoscopy in massive rectal bleeding

1 January 1981

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery

Vol. 68 (1) , 64
https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800680121

Abstract

Summary: Massive rectal bleeding can pose a difficult problem in management. We describe a new technique employing peroperative colonic irrigation and direct colonoscopy to identify the source of the bleeding, so avoiding blind colonic resection.

Keywords

RECTAL BLEEDING
MASSIVE RECTAL
DIRECT COLONOSCOPY
COLONIC RESECTION
PEROPERATIVE COLONIC
COLONIC IRRIGATION

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