The role of colonoscopy in the management of intestinal obstruction: a 20-year retrospective study

Purpose The aim of the study was to assess the use colonoscopy over time in the assessment of large bowel obstruction in a tertiary university hospital. Methods Retrospective analysis of surgical and colonoscopy records for the years 1990-2009 in a university hospital. All patients diagnosed with non-conservatively managed bowel obstruction were included. Results We recorded 644 patients diagnosed with non-conservatively managed bowel obstruction. Four hundred forty-one (67.3%) were managed only by surgery, 157 (23.6%) were managed by colonoscopy, and 46 (6.9%) by combined colonoscopy and surgery. Patients over 77 years were more likely to receive colonoscopy as monotherapy or combined with surgery as compared to younger patients. Management by colonoscopy only and by combined colonoscopy and surgery increased over time. Conclusions Colonoscopy in the management of non-conservatively treated bowel obstruction increased over time. However, therapeutic colonoscopy still has a limited role in bowel obstruction either as monotherapy or combined with surgery..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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BMC gastroenterology - 10(2010), 1 vom: 08. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Katsanos, Konstantinos H [VerfasserIn]
Maliouki, Mariana [VerfasserIn]
Tatsioni, Athina [VerfasserIn]
Ignatiadou, Eleftheria [VerfasserIn]
Christodoulou, Dimitrios K [VerfasserIn]
Fatouros, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Tsianos, Epameinondas V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bowel Obstruction
Combine Management
Endoscopic Management
Intestinal Obstruction
Toxic Megacolon

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© Katsanos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

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10.1186/1471-230X-10-130

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OLC2101380552