Tension pneumoperitoneum following upper endoscopy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Catherine Denkler; Helene M Sterbling; Hani Seoudi
- Source
- Journal of Surgical Case Reports
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Gastrointestinal bleeding
AcademicSubjects/MED00910
medicine.diagnostic_test
Abdominal compartment syndrome
business.industry
Perforation (oil well)
Case Report
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
medicine.disease
Surgery
Endoscopy
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pneumoperitoneum
Mesenteric ischemia
Shock (circulatory)
medicine
Abdomen
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
jscrep/0160
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2042-8812
Perforation of the digestive tract is a rare complication of endoscopy. Massive accumulation of air within the peritoneum resulting in the abdominal compartment syndrome is much less common with